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Summary

Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users following a U.S. government decision.

The U.S. Department of Interior recently announced the official name change, implemented by the Board on Geographic Names.

Google stated it updates names based on official government sources.

The name will remain "Gulf of Mexico" in Mexico and display both names elsewhere globally.

This change stems from an executive order by Trump, who also reversed the 2015 renaming of Alaska's Denali to Mount McKinley.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Google has been doing this all along with other places, don't suddenly get all up in arms when you guys clearly didn't care before.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder if they called it gulf if mexoamerica if it would be a funny compromise.

[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Google has no spine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, they reclassified Crimea as Russian territory on the localized Russian version, and in a lot of locales they either flag it as disputed territory, or territory belonging to no nation.

you bet your ass they're going to do whatever Daddy tells them when it comes to the US. Lmao.

America isn't a sovereign nation anymore, its a slave state beholden to Corpo Syndicates, The Russian Mafia, and Israel. Trump is just a dumbass they put in front of the camera to serve as a public face to the shadow mafia.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did anyone read the tweet? They are defending their decision not to change the name, because the change isn't official. No, they haven't "announced they will change the name".

Yeah, you can logically conclude based on that that they will update it once it's official, but the reporting is the opposite of what they said.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No they didn't. More fun to just be mad.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn't changed there

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