It’s been changed in the Geographic Names Information System which is the official government system used for naming geographic things in the USA. Every US-based mapping system will eventually pull in the update.
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vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 days ago
I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.
Not so.
This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.
Idiotic renaming of a body of water triggered by the Orange Fascist in charge
dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The comment you replied to was talking about regions outside of the USA. Specifically Australia who do not use a US based mapping system.
dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
Google Maps is still going to use official US data for US locations though, just like they use official Australian data in Australia.
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 days ago
saying the gulf of Mexico is an US location is like saying the Pacific Ocean is an US location.
Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Google Maps is US-based whether you use it in the US or anywhere else
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 days ago
it is worse when you notice than other places with two names do not use that schema.
Google maps shows “Rio Bravo” only when in spanish not Rio Bravo (Rio Grande).
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Wait till people find out much of it runs north-south through New Mexico, which is part of the U.S., hence having to specify that fact on their license plates, and despite fans of the Terminator franchise having seen the gorge bridge just out of Taos. The bridge over the Rio Grande just south of Colorado.
You want to get me going on rivers? Colorado’s my starting point, How the hell do we have two of those?