{"id":1836251,"date":"2025-01-29T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836251"},"modified":"2025-01-29T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T01:03:09","slug":"more-reactions-to-gulf-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/more-reactions-to-gulf-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"More Reactions to ‘Gulf of America’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday\u2019s post<\/a> looked mainly at Google\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s renaming of Denali and the Gulf of Mexico. Today some news about Apple and OpenStreetMap. On Daring Fireball, John Gruber points<\/a> to OpenStreetMap forum discussions about the change, which reveals some nuances and complications despite the utter lunacy of the situation. And AppleInsider<\/em> reports a small change in Apple Maps<\/a> that may or may not be a placeholder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If users navigate to the Gulf of Mexico, it still shows the 400-year-old name plain as day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if a user searches “Gulf of America,” the text over the Gulf changes to reflect the search result, but the information sheet shows data and photos about the Gulf of Mexico. This seems to be a working solution that could stick, but there isn’t any word from Apple if that is the plan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, according to CNN<\/a>, Mexico\u2019s response to the name change ranges somewhere between dismissive and mocking. The Conversation<\/em> offers a primer<\/a> on what goes into changing a U.S. place name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the lighter side, Martijn van Exel has created a Gulf of Mexico Watcher<\/a> that checks whether it\u2019s still being called that. More bitter in tone are the MAGA plugin<\/a> and the New World Order Google Map<\/a>, which offer a more … interactive response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously:\u00a0Naming the Gulf<\/a>; Google Maps to Use \u2018Gulf of America\u2019\u2013Others Not So Much<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s post looked mainly at Google\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s renaming of Denali and the Gulf of Mexico. Today some news about Apple and OpenStreetMap. On Daring Fireball, John Gruber points to OpenStreetMap forum discussions about… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[83,1719,386,448],"class_list":["post-1836251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-toponyms","tag-apple-maps","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-openstreetmap","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836778,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/gulf-of-america-compliance-and-resistance\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836251,"position":0},"title":"‘Gulf of America’: Compliance and Resistance","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 February 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps (screenshot) Compliance While it was reported that Apple would comply with the \u201cGulf of America\u201d renaming, I wasn\u2019t sure what Apple would do outside the U.S.; now it appears that it will follow Google\u2019s lead and show both names. 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