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Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Huh, do they really change names of international things when only one party says so?

Denali/McKinely is one thing, it's part of the US. But the Gulf of Mexico is a mix of US, Mexico, Cuba, and international waters. I wonder what they show Google Maps users who are in Mexico.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub 3 points 6 hours ago

I found this paragraph...

Can Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? Maybe, but it’s not a unilateral decision, and other countries don’t have to go along. The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the US and Mexico are members — works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them. There are instances where countries refer to the same body of water or landmark by different names in their own documentation.

From this webpage... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/can-trump-change-the-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They have clear rules for contested areas... that they follow in an as clear way as their user support rules.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

That's reassuring. We all know that google is the best at user support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Naming things is complicated.

It's not really a case where some organisation has the authority to name something. Rather people just call something a name, and organisations adopt that name.