Summary

Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” for U.S. users following a U.S. government decision.

The U.S. Department of Interior recently announced the official name change, implemented by the Board on Geographic Names.

Google stated it updates names based on official government sources.

The name will remain “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico and display both names elsewhere globally.

This change stems from an executive order by Trump, who also reversed the 2015 renaming of Alaska’s Denali to Mount McKinley.

  • @EvilBit
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    810 days ago

    Google has sucked for a very long time. They’re greedy, monopolistic sociopaths that scrubbed “don’t be evil” from their principles pretty much the second there was a buck to be had from it.

    • @reddig33
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      410 days ago

      It’s a shame they haven’t been broken up. If they had been, many of the Google Graveyard products would probably still be around.

      https://killedbygoogle.com/

      • @EvilBit
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        110 days ago

        Wave can stay dead though. I’m okay with that.