Makes sense. Google does not want to get into the business of deciding what's called what. They just want to take a government database and implement it so that people can complain to the government instead of to them.
Google Maps in the US Will Change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley
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#12I'd expect nothing less from Google and the other FAANGs. I wonder what OSM will do?
Some answers here : https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...
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#13America's version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line , I guess. At least they've not started making territorial claims to go with it, this is just a renaming to appease nationalists.
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#14I wonder if they'll put the dashed/contested line around the Gulf of ~Mexico~ America?
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#15I'd expect nothing less from Google and the other FAANGs. I wonder what OSM will do?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190
Most likely add an American English name, leaving the English name as Gulf of Mexico.
But I didn't read all 108 comments in the discussion.
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#16This is not new or controversial. Names vary between languages and countries. What would be controversial, is for Google to decide on other names than the official one. If you're upset about the name change, blame the one who gave the order.
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#17Is the message here that it is the America in "USA" or the whole continent America in the alleged name of the gulf? I guess I just should be glad the Navy wasn't involved somehow.
I think it's intended as the former, even though it ironically aligns quite nicely with the latter.
Ye I mean if the name change was done in some joint way to celebrate the friendship between the peoples around the gulf or what ever it wouldn't give the same vibes as some sort of preparation for an military expedition into Panama.
edit: Well looking on the map Panama is not in the gulf. I guess they are safe.
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#18Countries can tell companies what the maps of their countries should look like and what things should be called.
For example, Google shows different info about the Kashmir region depending on whether you are in Pakistan or India or external to both, because of how the Indian and Pakistani governments define the borders and names of the region. If the US government changes a thing's name, then Google will change that thing's name within the US. Google mostly doesn't choose names, it uses externally-supplied mostly-governmental name databases. Governments have the power to name their own regions.
I don't want Google to choose what things are called, so I think they are doing the right thing here, and the USG is doing the dumb thing.
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#19Is the message here that it is the America in "USA" or the whole continent America in the alleged name of the gulf? I guess I just should be glad the Navy wasn't involved somehow.
I think it's intended as the former, even though it ironically aligns quite nicely with the latter.
I think it should have been: "Gulf of the Americas"
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