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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 hour ago

No, don't use the sexy meme template for this change. It's just a dumb dick measuring move. It doesn't deserve that honor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

No one asking where this template is from. sigh Where's it from my good people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Random Instagram post from one of the women. No sexuality in the original context. We all just see what we wanna see 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 29 minutes ago

Can’t wait for Apple+Google to change USA to „small penis land“ as per my decree wich changed the name to represent the population and acknowledges the fact that there not the only America, but also central and south as well as Canada and México

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Will prices start going down now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 minutes ago

Of course. The name written on the map is what was keeping that huge inflation there on the US at 2%/y.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I was curious about Open Street Maps, since anyone can edit it.

Gulf of America comes up specifically as an official name for US, and there is also a note about how if you change the English name without agreement in the discussion then it will be reverted:

screen shot showing Open Street Map tags as described above, including the statement "Please see (link to discussion) before editing the name of this feature. Undiscussed changes will be reverted."

Discussion is here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571

It seems the general consensus is that the US have that as an official name, but it's not the common English name so name:en stays as the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

I was very happy to open up organic maps and see it still listed as Mexico.

I'm still trying to get out of Google maps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The more quickly the world decouples from the US, the better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

China world love to come in and fill this gap. But who will keep the shipping lanes free of piracy? They have the world's largest navy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

who will keep the shipping lanes free of piracy?

You know the US isn't patrolling the shipping lanes they don't use right?

Also, no, they never managed to keep the shipping lanes free of piracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

eh, they aren't that different

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 hours ago

Even the german language version does this now.

How long until the US pull a China and attack mexican fishing boats?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 hours ago

Doing my part.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Apple at least aren't showing me that dumb shit in Australia that Google is doing with parentheses:

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Rolling out world wide. I moved to organic maps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Source? Only reason I'm using Apple Maps in the first place is because I need public transport directions and it's not Google Maps. Organic Maps doesn't have them, and I don't want to use the app my state gov puts out because the way it calculates connections is garbage. Most international PT-only apps don't have my city even though it's the biggest in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget Microsoft with Bing maps. At least Google made this just for US users, they made it for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They aren’t afraid of negative attention, at least it’s some attention and people will know they have maps too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

From Thailand and Singapore it shows as “Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

UK here. It's the reverse for me.

Google maps showing gulf of Mexico

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Same for France

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yes, I'm checking now and that's true, old info from me, yesterday from Spain was still Gulf of Mexico, now Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)... Well, tomorrow it will probably be Gulf of America for everyone, they are doing this progressively.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

maps.me still keeping it so far, from OSM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is a very weird visual

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Just because you know cartography is lying, doesn't mean that you have to do it on purpose