If you're subservient to a ruler you do what they command without question.
If you pander to a ruler you indulge their stupid little peccadilloes, praise them and stroke their hair, all while leading them to make the rulings that you want.
> Yes, you can propose a change to an existing name or spelling, or to correct the location of a named feature. However, there must be a compelling reason and evidence of support for the change. The BGN discourages name changes unless there is a compelling reason. Changing a name merely to correct or re-establish historical usage is not in and of itself a reason to change a name.
shouldn't "The Gulf of America" extend from at least Long Island Sound down to somewhere in Argentina? Both contents have catcher's stances toward the east. Toward the Europe.
The left have been pressuring companies to adopt all sorts of ideological partisan positions for years, so it’s a bit hypocritical to expect companies to ignore the government now that the tide has turned.
"The hand of Vengeance found the bed
To which the Purple Tyrant fled;
The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead."
-William Blake
Mc Donald's still doesn't call them Freedom Fries. I suppose that's the left's fault, not because that was a stupid idea. What is it about Trump that makes us forget what stupid is?
> it’s a bit hypocritical to expect companies to ignore the government now
Not an American, but my impression has always been that the right expected companies to ignore "ideological partisan positions" as well when they came from the left?
So it seems fair that the roles are reversed now: the right is pushing for positions and the left wants companies not to follow.
Here in Latin America we understand "America" as the continent and not as the USA (as it should be, imho). If they change it globally and literally to "Gulf of America" ("Golfo de América") here it will have absolutely none of the effect Trump and gang want it to have.
It's been embarrassing for a long time, it's just that now it's embarrassing about stupid shit too, not just genocide and mass incarceration and WMDs and shit, though frankly the WMD thing was pretty stupid too. Remember "freedom fries"?
"The mountain was named Mount McKinley until 2015, when President Barack Obama's administration changed it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives."
In Google Maps, one can successfully search using the query string "Mt McKinley" but the destination is labeled "Denali".
To he fair, it's not really their job to define namings. This happens all over the world and all the time.
The sea between England and France is called "English channel" in the Anglosphere and "La Manche" in France and many non-English-speaking countries. Crimea is separated by a dotted line from both Ukraine and Russia, not pretending it's still Ukrainian but also not granting it to Russia.
Poland decided to refer officially to the Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, using its historical name, Konigsberg (or rather Królewiec, its Polish translations) since Kalinin was a Soviet apparatchik, and Wikipedia followed suit. I can't easily check the maps.
Maps are the last place where I want to see any innovation or political statements. Just use whatever prevailing official name and be done with it. If the US renames officially the GoM to GoAmerica then I expect Google Maps to follow suit.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 42.4 ms ] threadIf you're subservient to a ruler you do what they command without question.
If you pander to a ruler you indulge their stupid little peccadilloes, praise them and stroke their hair, all while leading them to make the rulings that you want.
US Board on Geographic Names. It's a Federal Executive cross-agency board within the President's chain of command.
> Yes, you can propose a change to an existing name or spelling, or to correct the location of a named feature. However, there must be a compelling reason and evidence of support for the change. The BGN discourages name changes unless there is a compelling reason. Changing a name merely to correct or re-establish historical usage is not in and of itself a reason to change a name.
It is absolutely a worthy-of-discussion topic; and the reasoning you gave is EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD.
Everyone gets what they want!
> Google added that the Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.
If the governments of Spain or Columbia want to opine on what it should be called, I’m sure Google would adopt it for their citizens
Anyway, the silly part here is that USA calls themselves America, while Mexico and Canada are just as American.
So there are two "United States" in North America!
It’s double standard to insist that your ideological positions should be respected but others shouldn’t.
Not an American, but my impression has always been that the right expected companies to ignore "ideological partisan positions" as well when they came from the left?
So it seems fair that the roles are reversed now: the right is pushing for positions and the left wants companies not to follow.
unintentionally? they're making the name more accurate
They already do geofencing for Kashmir, there are laws in India which would put maps API consumers in legal peril, as well as google.
They've dealt with this kind of thing for years.
In Google Maps, one can successfully search using the query string "Mt McKinley" but the destination is labeled "Denali".
The sea between England and France is called "English channel" in the Anglosphere and "La Manche" in France and many non-English-speaking countries. Crimea is separated by a dotted line from both Ukraine and Russia, not pretending it's still Ukrainian but also not granting it to Russia.
Poland decided to refer officially to the Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, using its historical name, Konigsberg (or rather Królewiec, its Polish translations) since Kalinin was a Soviet apparatchik, and Wikipedia followed suit. I can't easily check the maps.
Maps are the last place where I want to see any innovation or political statements. Just use whatever prevailing official name and be done with it. If the US renames officially the GoM to GoAmerica then I expect Google Maps to follow suit.