• scops@reddthat.comEnglish
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    14 days ago

    No, don’t use the sexy meme template for this change. It’s just a dumb dick measuring move. It doesn’t deserve that honor.

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    14 days ago

    I was curious about Open Street Maps, since anyone can edit it.

    Gulf of America comes up specifically as an official name for US, and there is also a note about how if you change the English name without agreement in the discussion then it will be reverted:

    screen shot showing Open Street Map tags as described above, including the statement "Please see (link to discussion) before editing the name of this feature. Undiscussed changes will be reverted."

    Discussion is here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571

    It seems the general consensus is that the US have that as an official name, but it’s not the common English name so name:en stays as the Gulf of Mexico.

  • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Apple changed it too? I literally had a coworker gloat about how they’re glad they switched to apple since their iPhone would NEVER do that bc Apple is an “ethical company”.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Google has had to deal with disputed place names a number of times.

      There’s the Sea of Japan which has the parenthesized name “East Sea”, which I think is only used in Korea.

      There’s the Persian Gulf sometimes known as the Arabian gulf.

      There’s the Falkland Islands which the Argentinians refer to as Islas Malvinas.

      What’s really dumb about this is that it goes directly against the old policy (from 2008) where they said:

      When our policy says that we display the “primary, common, local” names for a body of water, each of those three adjectives has an important and distinct meaning. By saying “primary”, we aim to include names of dominant use, rather than having to add every conceivable local nickname or variation. By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.

      But, the Gulf of “America” is not in common usage anywhere. Canada should see only “Gulf of Mexico”, even though it shares a language with the country that officially renamed it to “Gulf of America”. And in particular Germany shouldn’t see anything about “Amerika” because that’s just not a thing in any German-speaking country.

      Really, it should be Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) in the US and whatever the local name is everywhere else.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      I was crucified when I compared the two on an authoritarian leftist instance I shall not name, but I think people here can agree that despite having very different colours and propaganda, they both are both converging with the facist side of the spectrum.

    • cheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      14 days ago

      I was just about to report it as well, and they disabled that ability apparently…

      Google has removed the button to report a location as incorrectly labeled from the Gulf of America.

      Some users claim they’ve left reviews objecting to the renaming, but a quick scan of the Gulf of Mexico — now labeled Gulf of America depending on your location — reveals that the most recent review is from a month ago.

      (source)