I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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@DemocracyMattersALot place and feature names on maps are usually the officially recognized names. Trump passed a law, as moronic as it is, and now we have a new name that these companies use. My map company does the same thing.
Not defending Trump, just explaining how maps are made.
He issued an Executive Order, which doesn’t have a same weight as law—Congress never voted on it.
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@DemocracyMattersALot My response to that BSery...
Isn't "Great Againlandia" what the rest of the world calls "West Denmark"?
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
I've played around with Google Maps using a VPN and I've found that it only shows as "Gulf of America" in the US. Everywhere else it shows "Gulf of Mexico" with the Trumpian variant underneath in parentheses.
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@DemocracyMattersALot I'm in Australia and it has gulf of America in brackets under the real name
@adamantichrist @DemocracyMattersALot Yup. Pisses me off no end.
I have no problem with Google Maps showing local versions of names. If you happen to be in the USA and you look at that body of water, fine, show Trump's fantasy name. I don't care.
But outside the USA? It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's international waters. That's what it's called. End of.
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Isn't "Great Againlandia" what the rest of the world calls "West Denmark"?
@TheLancashireman @DemocracyMattersALot
Me to Denmark: Yes, please annex us! I'm pretty sure Greenland is run 1000x better than we are at this point.
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@DemocracyMattersALot place and feature names on maps are usually the officially recognized names. Trump passed a law, as moronic as it is, and now we have a new name that these companies use. My map company does the same thing.
Not defending Trump, just explaining how maps are made.
@silent_john @DemocracyMattersALot Yes but then:
* When you're inside the USA and you look at the map, show "Gulf of America". USA do USA, see if I care.
BUT
* When you're outside the USA, accept that the USA has no, ZERO, jurisdiction over the naming of international bodies of water. It's Gulf of Mexico OR whatever it's called in the local language, e.g. in The Netherlands you might see "Golf van Mexico".
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I've played around with Google Maps using a VPN and I've found that it only shows as "Gulf of America" in the US. Everywhere else it shows "Gulf of Mexico" with the Trumpian variant underneath in parentheses.
@angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot And that should not be tolerated. International bodies of water? Reference IHO, UNGEGN and UNCLOS ...
The name is "Gulf of Mexico", so when one is outside the USA, that's what it should say or the local version thereof. Nothing else. No parentheses, nothin'
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot Still wrong. I'll turn in a correction for Gulf of Epstein.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot time to change the USA to the URA (United Rapists of the Americas) for everyone...
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot they did that months ago. I demand a review.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot What's the problem? America is not U.S.A. and Mexico is a country on the American continent.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot Only in the US, and showing local labels is probably appropriate.
Internationally, it shows the generally recognized label first (Mexico) and the disputed label (America) in parenthesis after.
I hate this, too, but it's how it's usually done. Place names are in dispute all the time.
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@DemocracyMattersALot
Not in my Apple or Google Maps in Europe. It’s GoM (GoA) in both.@z @DemocracyMattersALot Same from Apple Maps in Canada.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot I find it weird to have assumptions that big business DOESN’T kiss the ring.
Only Americans think like that. Is weird, and history proves it wrong. Every time.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot another reason to use OpenStreetMap
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot
This is Apple from Europe -
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot MapQuest, GuruMaps, and Sygic all show the Gulf of Mexico.
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
@DemocracyMattersALot I miss the time when you could add a review on Google Maps of anything... like review a whole continent. Someone's review of Asia:
»It was pretty neat but way bigger than I expected. I didn't have time to see it all in my stop-over flight. Also a bit too spicy, but not bad. (3 stars)«
Otherwise: »The Gulf of Mexico is a great Gulf because of cool places like Mexico and Cuba, but unfortunately so much noise and smell from adjacent USA area (3 stars)«
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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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