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Subject: Re: Google & Apple maps changed the name of a large indentation of the Atlantic coastline
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:39:19 -0700
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Using <news:6wwh4fvj1qo1.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, VanguardLH wrote:

>> Both Google Maps & Apple Maps on my iPhone & Android today show a
>> change of name in a certain large partly enclosed navigable coastline
>> indentation. *gulf of america*
> 
> Hardly an indentation.  You think if you're standing on the shore at
> Tampa that you can see across the Gulf?  Guess you must also think
> Hudson Bay, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Arabian Sea, and Bay of
> Bengal are just "indentations", too.
> 
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/
> 
> More Trump shit.  Rename, and add another stupid holiday.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimitarmixmihov/2025/02/13/google-maps-admits-deleting-critical-gulf-of-america-reviews/

In a post on X, Google explained that it draws data from the Geographic
Names Information System when naming places in the U.S. Once GNIS set the
new standard as the 'Gulf of America', all mentions of the location as the
Gulf of Mexico now technically fall under what Google would consider 'fake
content.'

When deciding how to depict location names outside the US on Maps, Google
sources data from authoritative standards bodies like the United Nations,
ISO and the FIPS.

Although the first to implement the change, Google Maps is not the only
one. Apple Maps and Bing have subsequently also followed suit, with both
now displaying the Gulf of Mexico as 'Gulf of America.'