Microsoft has updated its Bing Maps service to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" for users in the United States
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    58·
    2 个月前

    Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.

  • Scrollone@feddit.it
    41·
    2 个月前

    European Google Maps alternatives:

    • Magic Earth
    • Organic Maps
    • GeoVelo (specific for bikes)
    • OSMand
  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    29·
    2 个月前

    I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.

    Not so.

    This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.

    Idiotic renaming of a body of water triggered by the Orange Fascist in charge

    • sanzky@beehaw.org
      16·
      2 个月前

      it is worse when you notice than other places with two names do not use that schema.

      Google maps shows “Rio Bravo” only when in spanish not Rio Bravo (Rio Grande).

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Wait till people find out much of it runs north-south through New Mexico, which is part of the U.S., hence having to specify that fact on their license plates, and despite fans of the Terminator franchise having seen the gorge bridge just out of Taos. The bridge over the Rio Grande just south of Colorado.

        You want to get me going on rivers? Colorado’s my starting point. How the hell do we have two of those?

    • danA
      10·
      2 个月前

      It’s been changed in the Geographic Names Information System which is the official government system used for naming geographic things in the USA. Every US-based mapping system will eventually pull in the update.

      • pineapplepizza@lemm.ee
        6·
        2 个月前

        The comment you replied to was talking about regions outside of the USA. Specifically Australia who do not use a US based mapping system.

        • danA
          3·
          2 个月前

          Google Maps is US-based. And even if it wasn’t, it’s still going to use official US data for US locations, just like they use official Australian data for Australian locations. If Australia renamed the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Bridgey McBridgeface, they’d show the new name even if you view it from a different country.

          • sanzky@beehaw.org
            11·
            2 个月前

            saying the gulf of Mexico is an US location is like saying the Pacific Ocean is an US location.

            • danA
              1·
              2 个月前

              The part north of the Mexico - US maritime border is US territory and the US can name it whatever it wants.

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
    11·
    2 个月前

    Y’all’s arguing about semantics, meanwhile USA becomes an absolute monarchy in the latest EO.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 个月前

    I feel like this and a few other moves by the Trumpler admin are meant to divide everyone’s attention from the stuff that’s really going to destroy the planet as we know it.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    2 个月前

    What’s the problem with calling it Gulf of America? To me that just seems like an objectively better name. You guys do realise that Mexico is in America too, right?

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      19·
      2 个月前

      the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question

      but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change

      • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Google and Apple are US companies though. I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name like that and I doubt the people in Mexico for example will start calling it that either. It seems like people are making out this to be a bigger issue than it is. Anyone is free to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico either. I still call Facebook, Twitter and Turkey by their original names too and I’ve yet to encounter a single person not understanding what I’m talking about.

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
          6·
          2 个月前

          I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name

          that’s exactly the point: there are international bodies that name these things. the arrogance of all of this is astounding. the US president doesn’t get to just snap his fingers and have the world say “yes mr president” and bow down to it…

          gulf of america

          is

          not

          it’s

          name

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      Yah. I’m torn. On the one hand it’s kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which for the second time tonight, gets me dangerously close to a long rant about the shitty media we have.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      I don’t think it’s the act that’s bad, just the undertones and the guy it’s coming from. Same thing with Mariann Budde 😂

  • danA
    5·
    2 个月前

    As far as I can tell, none of them are actually doing it right? The presidential order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was just for the portion of it that’s considered part of the US. The rest of it is still supposed to be called the Gulf of Mexico.

    rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/

  • Jinx@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 个月前

    Mexico should rename the USA to United States of Mexico, because reason. 🙃

  • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth
    3·
    2 个月前

    Does anyone know a good mapping software for public transport? I like open street map but it is no good for busses.

  • melp@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    2·
    2 个月前

    Well… at least one non beehawer found themselves on my block list. Anyway.

    • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 个月前

      Just brilliant. You created a very mild and civil honeypot for fascist sympathizers.

      “I think ze golfen ze amerikkkanner ist ein guten name, Herr Garbistch”

      🤳😯✍️✍️✍️

      • melp@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        It’s weird they’re in the tech community more than the US politic one.

          • melp@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
            3·
            2 个月前

            Oh, i meant in the beehaw forums. There’s more apologists on this side of beehaw than over on US Policy. Sorry. Wasn’t clear.

    • Jack@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 个月前

      Because they blocked you? Maybe they don’t want to see posts from people who don’t summarize the articles in the subject/title?

      (The current subject is from the source, “Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News”.)