Google Maps obeyed Pedo Daddy instantly when it came to Gulf of Mexico.
Well, sorta?
The name was changed for US users, as google’s policy is to use whatever a user’s country’s official name for something is (also true for where borders are drawn and so on). In mexico (and presumably every other country), it’s still “Golfo de México”. I don’t know if they’ll change Lake Ontario to whatever it was trump did but it would surprise me if they didn’t, and just as with the Gulf it’s going to only be americans that are impacted & everyone else will be continuing to ignore his nonsense.
edit: (You apparently can change your domain to view what it looks like from other countries - though I couldn’t figure out how to do it in the ten seconds I tried just now. Some domains display some alternative names in parens too I’m told, though I haven’t looked into that one at all. I know in Mexico and Egypt it didn’t show up as Gulf of America when I checked, so there’s that. The next most famous example is the shitshow that is the Persian Gulf / Gulf of Iran / Arabian Gulf debate.)
I’m French and in my case it’s “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”, so yeah both names
Same thing in Spain. Kind of disgusting they’re forcing it on everyone.
CoMaps still shows the proper name (Gulf of Mexico), and no mention of the Gulf of America, so that’s another easy win for OSM and CoMaps
Huh - very interesting! Does it display that way in both english / spanish?
It’s not officially the Gulf of America in the US. The President can’t just arbitrarily rename shit.
In the US, the maintaining authority on references for geographic features is the Bureau of Geographic Names. It’s a federal agency operating under the secretary of the interior - and unfortunately, the president does have the unilateral authority direct them to change official names (in theory he can’t change it for internal political reasons - declaring something the “Barack Obama memorial dick-shaped rock” or whatever - but I don’t know if that has ever been ruled on)
lake superior would have been a bigger flex despite its nationally ambiguous name. typical american half-measure that’s indicative of a society that had to invent viagra because it couldn’t pop a boner.
Are you talking about Lake Saskatchewan?
Who cares what this senile child-fucker calls anything?
I just know he’s the main character in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES ™
When is he going to find out that no one really cares what he is calling things. It only gets covered because it is so ridiculous.
google maps hasn’t changed it. guess google maps is to woke now
I still get flashbanged every time I see “gulf of America” on Google Maps. The list of stuff to unfuck once he’s out of office is so long, I wonder how long that’ll take to fix.
Even setting my vpn to Canada doesn’t entirely free me of that
Doesn’t matter how long or short the list is. Americans won’t be happy with any amount of progress and run back to Republicans in a cycle or two so we can watch a low IQ conservative fuck everything up again.
They should rename every lake to “Lake America”. And replace hard words Trump struggles with to Trump.
Like positive. Or negative. Or vaccination.
lol
Lake Epstein Files
I propose that we rename the harbor that borders on Mar-A-Lago to “Lake Inferior”.
Is Google maps a thing? Have they changed the name?
They did when he declared the Gulf of Mexico had a new name, so did others. Nearly immediately.
I stopped using Google Maps the second this happened. Fuck that cowtow bullshit.
Only if you were looking at the map from a US IP address iirc. It’s still gulf of Mexico for the rest of the world, but with the stupid name in brackets now after it.
They should put what everywhere calls every location in brackets if they’re gonna do that.
The names were not and will not be changed in an official capacity.
Yup. I just checked MapQuest though, and they did not.
Thank you MQ.
If you want to know who still has integrity left, just open up their maps/navigation app and see what they call the Gulf of Mexico.
Relevant “The Dictator” clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifUCountries ought to rename their most toxic places after Trump.
Still producing noisy distraction from EPSTEIN FILES.
Sad old man. One day a lot of people will smile when he goes away.I wonder how OSM would treat something like this
Wonder not:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975
Basically, OSM is a database containing points, paths, and polygons.
Each item can have any number of fields. Obvious ones like lat and lon, and specific ones like speed limit or entry fee.
An item can have many names, and its up to the renderer to choose which to show a user, or whether to show any.
The locale specific name for the US will change whenever the US govt department adopts the new name.
The general, most commonly used name will be lake Ontario until the most common make for the lake is lake America, which is unlikely to be ever.
Until a renderer uses it—which currently isn’t the case—nobody will see it. At least not on a map. The reasoning here is mostly to still have it searchable under that name.
ETA: See its wiki entry, specifically this part:
So basically the name is added somewhere so it is searchable but never displayed
I’m not sure about that “currently not the case”.
I mean you can download the data from OSM, open it in QGIS, and make a custom map of your city. You could use whatever locale you wanted for names.
My point is, any assertion that it’s not used by a renderer is false, because someone will inevitably use it
Both Google and Apple Maps went along with “Gulf of America,” unfortunately, so we’re going to have to see.
The Open Street Maps website doesn’t show the name of the gulf for me, but CoMaps shows it as Gulf of Mexico. I should find a way to uninstall Google Maps.
USA appropriating the name of the entire continent is so dumb.
One thing to note, with Gulf of Mexico he actually had Republicans pass a bill to do the change.
This one is an executive order. An executive order is what the name implies. It is not a law, but an order for executive agencies to follow. So while employees of agencies like FBI or IRS are instructed to call the lake as lake America, as far as the rest of the country is concerned the lake is still the Lake Ontario.
It’s clearly is a stunt to distract from the pedophilia and a failed war.
It’s clearly is a stunt to distract from the pedophilia and a failed war.
With the minor side effect of fucking with the economies and well being of the people in 2 countries…
Sure, but why should he care, he is making killing. Last year he made 4 billions that we know of.
Just to put in perspective, before he became president there was a lot of evidence that he wasn’t a billionaire as he claimed, now he definitively is.
Then maybe the world should stop celebrating his “winning” and instead consistently point out he is a fraudster that should be either jailed or executed
They geo localize the maps as your government position. Users from different countries see different political borders in contested land.
Those guys were invited to his inauguration. So yeah.
They paid for it
From what I understand, they’ve only changed that for the Americans.
Here you go
“They only openly embrace fascism in one country.” No, fuck us and fuck our capitulating corporations. Don’t let them think that you’ll let them do the same to you.
In Australia, both Google and Apple Maps say ‘Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)’
Same in the UK on google maps. Pathetic and spineless.
Same here in Canada. Really wondering if they’ll do the same for Lake Ontario, I suspect that’s going to go over very poorly.
