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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Depending on where the app detects you are, google maps shows different borders and names. So to some countries, it'll show "Gulf of America", "Gulf of Mexico", or even "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". This is just based on what they perceive to be the most popular politics are in that particular country/government
A famous example is that the borders of India are slightly smaller or bigger depending if you're in Pakistan, India, or China due to all the border disputes those 3 countries have the region
From Brazil with a phone configured in English and got this.
can confirm, configured to portuguese
So this is what's taking all the dev time away from being able to display pride and black history month!
if that were the case it'd say "Gulf of Mexico" throughout latin america. but they've set it to include both names in every country besides the US and Mexico
also i have a hard time thinking of a country/govt where the popular politics would have any support for including anything but the name it's had since the 1500s. maybe far-right america stans like poland and hungary?
The decision is made by a bunch of white Americans in Silicon Valley though