What the everlovin' FUCK, Google Maps? You cannot arbitrarily change the name of a body of water just because a little orange man found his crayons on the plane!
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Funny enough I've found that if you zoom out just the right amount it'll say "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". Not that this makes the people at Google look any less absurd, moreso maybe?
I've heard they have renamed Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois today... what is wrong with people? To me, it will always be the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Michigan.
Governor Prtizker and the Lake Illinois thing is just to troll Trump...he's also annexing Green Bay, and planning a Mississippi River announcement next week.
Can confirm as an IL, he was super trolling on purpose for a laugh at how stupid this all is. He did an “explanation” conference after because I guess too many people flipped out lol
It's really nothing and if it shuts him up for a minute, good. When he's no longer president they can easily change it back. And in the UK and Mexico they versions displayed denotes it as the GoA (gulf of MX) and in Mexico of course they haven't gone bat!@#$% crazy so it's still GoM...
capitulating to a few small instances of bullshit as a treat to the president sounds like a terrible idea, better to just reject it all than split hairs over relative severity
What do you think YOU'RE doing daily? ANYBODY? Bitching about it & him here? Sounds like capitulation anyhow, no face profile. None of us are out in the streets, none of us are Bolsheviks, none of us are going to do anything. My point was to ignore and maybe make it to midterms. I'm no better.
Fun fact google actually changes the map information based on your current location. This includes disputed borders such as the border between India and China. They are allowed to do this without any oversight. Technocracy is terrifying.
USGS isn’t the authority for naming international bodies of water though. The International Hydrographic Organization has that honour. And I don’t believe that they’ve changed the name of the Gulf, so changing the name across the entire world is going against recognised international standards
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Not surprised
We cool over in IL ✌🏻