The name change serves zero purpose and is nothing more than political theater.
It happens because political theater works on enough people to swing elections.
Gulf of America name change in the U.S.
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#22Where are the parody map artists?
This is the parody. Anything else would be imperfect.
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#23The name change serves zero purpose and is nothing more than political theater.
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#24Are there other instances of differing names by country? I don't mean language differences. I found it strange that for the rest of the world, they'll see both.
East Sea / Sea of Japan
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#25If are not explicitly anti-authoritarian, then you are just waiting for an opportunity or offer to align with an authoritarian.
People can say whatever they want about rules and procedures and precedents and whatever else, but this was absolutely a signal to Trump that they are in line.
Just wait until Google effectively re-draws the border of Ukraine to Putin's liking and labels Taiwan as another province of China.
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#26Since myself and everyone I know refuses to acknowledge this "name change"... what map apps do you guys recommend?
VPN to Mexico, or just set your device location outside of the U.S.
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#27The name change serves zero purpose and is nothing more than political theater.
It was political theater when the Obama administration renamed Mount McKinley to Denali, but obviously they felt that it served a purpose.
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#28Since myself and everyone I know refuses to acknowledge this "name change"... what map apps do you guys recommend?
Per the link, they're just following the US Geographic Names Information System updates. What _should_ be the standard here, if not to follow the official naming policies?
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#29Since myself and everyone I know refuses to acknowledge this "name change"... what map apps do you guys recommend?
OpenStreetMaps has excellent maps, and there are many apps that use it. Unfortunately their search is usually not that good. I use Organic Maps, and also have OsmAnd. Great maps, poor search. I'd love to know if there's an app with better search.
Well, at the moment OSM has the tag
"official_name:en-US"="Gulf of America"
but it changes regularly (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190). How the map providers deal with this tag is up to them. There's actually a huge discussion how to deal with this. It's... complicated:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...
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#30The name change serves zero purpose and is nothing more than political theater.
It was political theater when the Obama administration renamed Mount McKinley to Denali, but obviously they felt that it served a purpose.
I'm not so sure.
The McKinley name for the mountain was by a prospector, ginning up support for a presidential candidate. A bunch of people showed up, started digging for gold, and just ignored the local names for things.
Denali is historically relevant, and locally relevant. It seems like a reduction in politics, not a continuation.