DeGoogle Yourself

I will continue deadnaming the gulf with the name assigned at birth. It's just going through a phase.

Hahaha I thought Google was benevolently collecting my personal data for my own good. I consented right? /s

No bad ideas, right? How about the United States of Mexico?

Mexico should rename "America"

I wonder how location dependent it is?

Time for a repeat comment: Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions), and is FOSS. Please encourage places to contribute business information to Open Street Maps.

Even in the UK they have put Gulf of America.

The UK Government doesn't recognize that name and have officially stated they wont (at least in the short term)

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

Organic Maps:

I just did literally the only thing I CAN do, which is rate it 1 star and call out their spinelessness. I'm sure this token, irrelevant act will be ignored at best or manually removed at worst. But until they drag me off to the gulag I'm absolutely not going to shut up and play along.

Fuck Trump, Musk, their MAGA cult, and anyone who enables or colludes with them or fails to fight back.

Take the plunge. De-Google.

It's even weirder because America doesn't mean just the United States

Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

Wouldn't the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

The Caribbean Sea?

Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also "American" from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it's all "America"

Naming the Gulf of Mexico "America" is almost as bad as naming a country "earth"

Yes, Tim Apple bent the knee, but the company seems to be holding steadfast.

Edit God dammit, they changed it. Cowards.

Anything but google.

Planet America, orbiting the American sun, in the galaxy called America

It's not google's fault. It was told to do so and has. Does anyone seriously expect them not to have done this?

Every American company, or company doing business in America, needs to toe the line of an unpredictable and vindictive president, especially one as fat and tempting as Google.

Now there'll be a disconnect in mapping between what some sources say and what others do, but anyone with a little history knowledge knows this isn't the first time.

Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn't passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they'll take for this?

In Taiwan it says:

Gulf of Mexico(Gulf of America)

Meanwhile on Openstreetmap:

name Golfo de México

name:en Gulf of Mexico

official_name:en_US Gulf of America

Showing just enough acknowledgement to confirm they've discussed the executive order, but they aren't going to follow it.