Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News
Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News
Microsoft has updated its Bing Maps service to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" for users in the United States
Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.
European Google Maps alternatives:
- Magic Earth
- Organic Maps
- GeoVelo (specific for bikes)
- OSMand
Magic Earth Organic Maps GeoVelo (specific for bikes) OSMand
Nice! Thanks!
Yandex maps
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lol yeah maybe we should be more specific when we talk about Europe
Magic Earth is also pretty good for cycling, though I will be checking out GeoVelo
Idk if it's European, but there's also Sygic Maps
I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.
Not so.
This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.
it is worse when you notice than other places with two names do not use that schema.
Google maps shows “Rio Bravo” only when in spanish not Rio Bravo (Rio Grande).
Wait till people find out much of it runs north-south through New Mexico, which is part of the U.S., hence having to specify that fact on their license plates, and despite fans of the Terminator franchise having seen the gorge bridge just out of Taos. The bridge over the Rio Grande just south of Colorado.
You want to get me going on rivers? Colorado's my starting point. How the hell do we have two of those?
It's been changed in the Geographic Names Information System which is the official government system used for naming geographic things in the USA. Every US-based mapping system will eventually pull in the update.
Stupid timeline. We're back in the times of kings naming the seas
Welcome to the United States of Licking Trumps Asshole
Y'all's arguing about semantics, meanwhile USA becomes an absolute monarchy in the latest EO.
While true, that's another topic of discussion.
As far as I can tell, none of them are actually doing it right? The presidential order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was just for the portion of it that's considered part of the US. The rest of it is still supposed to be called the Gulf of Mexico.
rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico
What's the problem with calling it Gulf of America? To me that just seems like an objectively better name. You guys do realise that Mexico is in America too, right?
the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question
but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change
Google and Apple are US companies though. I'm not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name like that and I doubt the people in Mexico for example will start calling it that either. It seems like people are making out this to be a bigger issue than it is. Anyone is free to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico either. I still call Facebook, Twitter and Turkey by their original names too and I've yet to encounter a single person not understanding what I'm talking about.
Yah. I'm torn. On the one hand it's kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which for the second time tonight, gets me dangerously close to a long rant about the shitty media we have.
Does anyone know a good mapping software for public transport? I like open street map but it is no good for busses.
I was using something called TRANSIT
Mexico should rename the USA to United States of Mexico, because reason. 🙃
Well... at least one non beehawer found themselves on my block list. Anyway.
Because they blocked you? Maybe they don't want to see posts from people who don't summarize the articles in the subject/title?
(The current subject is from the source, "Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News".)
No. I blocked them.
