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Fight Like A Mother! 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

I deleted the ap. Fuck that bullshit who knows what else they lie about.

@eainsaunt.bsky.social

Good thing I don’t use Google maps.

I don't think that's likely to make a difference. OpenStreetMap already calls it "Mount McKinley" and I'm sure that all the other major map providers will also call it that once the change is made in USGS.

After digging further, I slightly misrepresented OSM's current state -- they've updated the "official_name" to Mount McKinley but are leaving the "name" as Denali, at least for now. bsky.app/profile/mcmi...

Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev

OpenStreetMap currently takes the position that Denali's official_name is "Mount McKinley" but that its plain name is "Denali" as that is (for now) the most common name used worldwide. on the flip side, the Gulf of Mexico stays as-is bc the US doesn't have authority to give it a new official_name

Concrescere

@concrescere.bsky.social

Not taking sides in disputed borders between countries in conflicts that in many cases predate Google Maps as an entity is an entirely different thing than capitulating in advance to a completely non-legally binding EO by a nazi madman. No official law or policy has been enacted on America's part.

folks blaming google for "capitulating" on this don't understand that there are 195 countries on the planet & G shows different labels for geographical features to *everyone* depending on their language & country. why would they make a special exception for the US just because we voted in a dumbass

(Specifically, the root source of truth for "what the US government calls things" is the USGS's Geographic Names Information System. Google will call geographic feature #558730 whatever GNIS calls it -- currently "Gulf of Mexico". Like it or not, USGS is part of the executive branch.)

taking small solace that at least it's not Musk who's president, or it'd end up named something like "the Gulf of Based Doge"

@lakers-lover.bsky.social

Just Another Perfect Day

Maybe because of the dumbass part

Balinares

@balinares.bsky.social

This can both be 100% true and caving immediately without opposing a bit of friction is still a political decision with political consequences. 🤷🏻

Greg Spooner

@spoonsky.bsky.social

@communitycafe.bsky.social

“You don’t understand how complicated this is - Google simply has to comply” 🙄

Dayle Ohlau

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It's absolutely embarrassing. This kind of pissing contest is something we used to roll our eyes when other countries did it.

wfulford.bsky.social

@wfulford.bsky.social

except this is not really disputed. It's been called the Gulf of Mexico since 1550.

Like it or not, it is now officially the position of the United States (whose USGS data files Google ingests to get the names of geographical features in the US) that it's the "Gulf of America". The dispute is with the rest of the world, who will presumably keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico.

wfulford.bsky.social

@wfulford.bsky.social