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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

Where does this madness with the renaming on Google end? Can Trump call the Atlantic Ocean the “Trump Ocean” and they’ll fall in line? Can he name Minnesota “Big Fat Loserville” and it goes on the map the next day?

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Google's stated rationale: it has a long-standing policy of mirroring whatever a country's official government geographic database says. Here, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names/GNIS formally updated its records to "Gulf of America" after Trump's executive order, and Google Maps auto-syncs to that

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database for U.S. users (Mexico still sees "Gulf of Mexico"; everyone else sees both). So it's not arbitrary — it only follows names formally enacted through that federal process, not casual presidential remarks. (full response)