As a (former) map contributor, I will -and I hope many others with me- report it as a mistake. Of course Google will not change it back, but it does not matter.
USA and it's oligarchs have gone mad.
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I'll send soooo many new wrong names and places everywhere I go if they do that
Seriously. Let’s start a war on google.
Make sure you get rid of your Gmail account ;)
I was about to switch to Proton until the Proton CEO outed himself as a Trumper.
Wait really?
Fuck… I thought they were becoming a good non-profit.
I run my own email server since August and I'm never going back. I use the mailinabox.email open source software stack.
I have heard that it can be difficult to get emails sent from a self-hosted server accepted by the big email providers. Have you experienced any difficulty with this? And how is spam filtering?
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I'm just gonna keep migrating to OrganicMaps
This is already going to cost taxpayers a fortune in governmental redrawn maps, of which there are a ridiculous number across federal and state departments, and that's before you go into even more costly things like replacing all the road signs that mention the Gulf of Mexico.
Which makes me wonder how much it is going to cost all these tech companies that reference it to do the same. Some of it is just changing a word in a database, but I have a feeling that's only some of it.
Not as much as changing it all back when the Narcissus-in-chief finally corks it and they all pretend not to have debased themselves so shamelessly and utterly.
What road signs mention the Gulf of Mexico?
Let's start with all of the Continental Divide signs going North/South across the U.S.:
Looking forward to the explanation of why none of those count.
The stupidest fucking timeline
All of those count. Thanks
Getting groups to go along with your stupid minor lies is the first step. That way when you start doing the bigger important lies they are already used to just going along with your lies.
This is straight from the authoritarian play book and Trump is not doing this without purpose.
Follow your own policy, Google!
Even this wasn't found great by the comments, but it's better than "whatever Trump says".
By saying "common", we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming
That policy is surprisingly on point.
"In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage."
Uh-huh.
Eh, their policy currently is "make as much money as possible, nothing else matters"
Making money now requiring stuffing their noses up Trumps ass, so here we go
So that means they're gonna put some bullshit name on it here in Canada? What the hell.
Fuck off google🖕🏼
Omg lol. They’re all just licking the boot like it was covered in piss (because they were told it was good).
They’re abandoning Linux users to the cops and global responsibility in one day.
Edit: Facebook and Google. But really they’re all in the domed city together now waiting for the ship to be built.
So… I have no intention to use google maps as a result of this. Not like I used it much to begin with, but I’m going to do my part to not enable these ignorant cowardly pissfarts to cartographically troll an entire planet.
No sir, not on my astrolabe!
For trails I already use OSM, how is it for navigation?
Apple maps? Other preferences?
I wonder what the options are no buck Google Navigation on my EV's infotainment console.
I've used Organic maps (which I think uses OSM navigation) exclusively and it hasn't let me down yet. Especially when walking it knows a lot more routes than Google. One thing Google has going for it is it knows where there's a lot of traffic and routes around it, OSM doesn't have the data to do that.
Organic Maps also has an Android Auto version, though I don't have anything to try that.
I use Apple Maps.
Make sure you use maps not owned by Google. Waze is part of Google BTW.
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I was looking for a reason to fully commit to OpenStreetMap.
Pretty much any mapping software will follow suit as It's an official name change, so until it's reverted (if ever, because I could see a future Democratic President just leaving it as is because they don't want to be called anti-American on Fox), you'll just have to deal with it, unfortunately.
OSM treats official names as tertiary to signage and local usage. It's also not chiefly American so doesn't have much reason to favour their usage over other countries'.
Mind that you can also have many names for one thing in OSM so it will probably be noted in there somewhere.
I had to have a look at the current situation, Gulf of Mexico currently has no fewer than 39 names listed
There is also an ongoing discussion about the executive order. From what I saw it seems to be leaning in favour of adding an official_name:en-US tag if the order gets recognised by a relevant body e.g the US Board of Geographic names. Notably this is not the primary name tag.
There is also an ongoing discussion about the executive order.
Absolutely disgusting how many people there are taking this at all seriously
Use Facist_Name as the tag, as is accurate, and be done with it
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I doubt OSM will change it. Its not a land mass in the US, the US has no authority in changing its name.
It's not an official name change... They have a governing body for name's and unless they change it, which they won't only the us will recognise the change... Whole things a pissing contest like trump himself... He's a bully and not a very good one
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That's fucked, but I use OSM anyways
Wondering when he will change lake Ontario to lake America.
Canadians aren't brown enough for that.
Do the Trump dipshits realize they're just renaming it after the continent? The continent that Mexico is also on? There is no country named 'America.' There are the United States of America: a federation of semi autonomous states that are almost exclusively located on the North American continent.
They're already living in a country that they think is named America. Much of the world follows suit too.
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The idea that these pieces of shit have so much hatred for brown people that they can't even see the word "Mexico" on a map without having some kind of fit is fucking insane!
What a bunch of pussies.
We just call it the Gulf Coast here.
But if they really wanna get nitpicky, might as well rename it to the Gulf of Oil.
Yei, another service I'll dump and self host. I'll just get a nice big server, dump everything there, and then get rid of all my last Google crap
The only thing I'll miss is YouTube, not for the site, but for the content
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