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.
@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.
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* 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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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.
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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 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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@DemocracyMattersALot another reason to use OpenStreetMap
@jay9 @DemocracyMattersALot osm.org has different names for that node: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190
Editwar inclusive.
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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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@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".
@rozeboosje @DemocracyMattersALot localization should be a thing. It depends on what your local government accepts as "truth". Simply flipping your VPN also might not reveal the correct answer, as you might have cached tiles, etc...
My point is, no matter how stupid the decision to change the name is, it *is* an officially recognized name change.
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@robinadams @DemocracyMattersALot #alt4U
The above post includes a screenshot of a tweet from the @MapQuest account from social media platform, "X" (formerly Twitter before a shithead bought it and broke it), that reads:
"fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it"
