Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

Reminds me a lot of after 9/11 when they tried to change French Fries to Freedom fries. That stuck about as well as water on teflon.

I cannot believe they bent on this at all. This isn't the will of the people or a problem we asked to solve it is the asinine rantings of a fucking baby. Why the fuck am I stuck in this timeline holy shit.

well google always displays the locally official names and borders. so just business as usual.

but why does the president of the usa get to decide what places are called? isn't there a cartography department or something?

Google; we're still calling it Twitter you think we're gonna start calling it Gulf of America just because a doofus says so?

This idea originated as a Stephen Colbert joke in 2010. As always I'm sure some will call this some sort of self-aware troll by Trump, but what are the odds of that.

I'll keep an eye out for a firefox plugin to change it back.

Keep reporting it as a bug.

"The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called 'America South' and Canada 'America North'. Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on it's maps app."

Why would google, a company of such unfathomable power and reach, be fearful of Trump? They can say no and it won't affect their bottomline much.

This is super dumb.

How are these morons so offended about the name of a body of water?

Their fragile ego is so completely shattered because Mexico "has a Gulf" and they "don't"? Little men with too much power.

Can't imagine wanting to work for big tech these days lol. These companies had insane reputation in the 2010s. People thought working for Google was like working in willy wonka's chocolate factory. They really squandered their brand.

Yeah, I've been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

Edit: I've tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn't annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I'm not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven't found it yet.

I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.

This is so pathetic by Google.

What the hell. No one’s going to call it the Gulf of America, except for the magas, the rapist and his useless offspring.

This is 4 years of drivel and it’ll always be knows as the Gulf of Mexico.

The man in charge is the biggest moron to ever be given power to lead.

Electing a rapist seems like a very American thing to do, who also married an immigrant, which is very odd since he’s doing his best to stop immigration.

Something something racist rapist hypocrite.

For what it's worth, this is how Google maps has always worked. Use Google maps in China and you'll notice that borders are in different places, HK, Tibet Bhutan, the whole China sea, those are within China's borders. It's the same with Russia, crimea is just part of Russia if you use Google maps in Russia. If your country recognizes different borders or different names for places, that's what Google shows you in your country. It's basically either that or they can't operate in that country, so they don't really have a choice if they want to exist in that region.

Why is it that when Prez Asshole farts from his mouth, so many race to inhale the stench and call it a rose?

They should change it to Gulf of $30 Eggs.

They can name it how they want. They could name it piss puddle and the rest of the world wouldn't care, it'll still be Gulf of Mexico.

It's giving big "freedom fries" energy. Makes sense when you think about how much of a wet dream the post-9/11 circle jerk was (is) for conservatives. They're trying to recreate the same 2002 Republican, plastic-patriot distraction machine again.

"Gulf of Trump" just go for the gusto you fucking spinless pussies.

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Another day another issue that completely doesn't matter at all to distract from the fact that our politicians are incapable of actually fixing any of our problems.

I've been sitting on moving off Gmail. Not anymore.

Pathetic. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't follow suit. Renaming it just for one of Trump's ego trips is not a good reason.

Vote to change it to Gulf of Luigi

How do people not understand that Google Maps is regional, and the region sees their official government-endorsed maps?

Wait... so... this was not a joke? They're serious?

It's my understanding that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally change official geographic names. As of my writing this, the name “change” has NOT been adopted by the United States government. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. Unless accepted by the US BoGN, it changes nothing. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.

Google are saying here that they will only change it on maps if it's made official by the US Government, which has not happened yet. That's why they haven't made any change yet, and won't unless Trump gets the US BoGN to do his bidding.

Time to ditch Maps then.

Jesus fucking christ

So why didn't they change Crimea to be part of Russia, if that's always been the longstanding policy, Google?

(Note; I'm not suggesting it is a part of Russia; just pointing out the hypocrisy of Google since Trump claiming ownership of the Gulf of Mexico is the same thing as Russia claiming ownership of Crimea.)

I mean if Turkey can just decide to change it's name and everyone has to respect it (not me Turkey it is), I don't see why this is different

Does anyone know if Waze will warn you if there is an accident ahead and will redirect you?

i think mexico should name gulf of california to gulf of mexico

WTF?

I propose eveyone rename it to "Gulf of low egg prices"

Step 1: Rename "South China Sea" to "'Murica Sea"

Step 2: ???

Step 3: 🪖☢️🚀💥❓️🤔

Like a little bitches they are...

Where did this gulf of America thing come from anyway. It just seems so left field. Was it a hot topic among the MAGA or something?

It just seems like he woke up one day and had an idea 💡

Now US can start claiming islands just like China does with the South Sea

I don't recommend Google Maps anymore. It's a really shitty map. I've been reporting bugs for ages and they never fix them. Also the GPS is really terrible, it sets the road full of constant turns and forces you to drive on small narrow internal roads instead of normal open roads. The localisation option sucks too, it keeps showing me that I'm somewhere else and my position is always a few metres off and it's so delayed that you don't know if you've made a good turn or not unless you wait like half a minute. Also the glitches in the map, missing locations, blurry photos, random photos swapped around and extreme inconsistencies. It's crazy that this shit is still being used. I bought a dedicated GPS for a car and in my phone and PC, I use OpenStreetMaps or its forks.

Any chance there's a place we could all start submitting bug reports about the incorrectly named body of water? Once the change goes into effect we should post that everywhere and see if we can swamp Google.

If you are close enough to it for the name to have any relevant reference, you're just guna say Gulf anyway.

The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists! The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!

Jesus, we're pathetic.

Fuck off google🖕🏼x2

Could someone explain to me why are people irritated by this? I'm a foreigner.

Here google. It's correct here. Nothing to change.

E: i love the DV, denying geography lol

I am so glad that I switched our app over to OSM last year.

So many important issues affecting America right now ..... and the country and its government is fixated and pouring so much energy, manpower, knowledge, education, experience and capability into .... renaming something on a map that no really gives a shit about.

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Why is anyone using twitter anyway? Bring back blog post press releases

Pussies

I want off this ride.

Time to stop using Google

It's only the Gulf of America in the United States lol

Humanity is a joke.

@return2ozma we should collectively boycott this and call the Gulf of Turtle Island just to piss Mr. Orange off

European golf players now name this gulf: The Gulf Of Trumps Lost Golf Balls

So If I use the flatpak app on Linux would it actually be able to know i'm in the US? I don't use any sort of location services.