{"id":1836388,"date":"2025-02-08T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836388"},"modified":"2025-02-08T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:42:25","slug":"alaska-legislature-opposes-denali-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/alaska-legislature-opposes-denali-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Legislature Opposes Denali Name Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sure, the Gulf of Mexico thing got most of the attention (because it\u2019s an international body of water), but Trump\u2019s decision to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley is getting some pushback too\u2014namely from Alaska\u2019s legislature. The Associated Press reports<\/a> that Alaska\u2019s state Senate and House have voted in favour of a resolution asking Trump to reverse course and retain Denali as the name of the continent\u2019s tallest mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, the Gulf of Mexico thing got most of the attention (because it\u2019s an international body of water), but Trump\u2019s decision to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley is getting some pushback… 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":[33,1207,448],"class_list":["post-1836388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-toponyms","tag-alaska","tag-denali","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785619,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/mapping-denali-in-detail\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836388,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Denali in Detail","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Matt Nolan and his family have created a topographic map of Denali, the highest peak in North America, using a form of stereo photogrammetry Nolan calls fodar: they repeatedly overflew the peak in a small airplane and took photos of the terrain below with a digital SLR. The end result\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Surveying"","block_context":{"text":"Surveying","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/surveying\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fodar-denali-1024x582.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fodar-denali-1024x582.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fodar-denali-1024x582.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fodar-denali-1024x582.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1836235,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/google-maps-to-use-gulf-of-america-others-not-so-much\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836388,"position":1},"title":"Google Maps to Use ‘Gulf of America’–Others Not So Much","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 January 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Lots of news coverage about Google\u2019s announcement that it will follow Trump\u2019s lead and change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America (and Denali to Mount McKinley) on Google Maps once the GNIS database has been updated\u2014at least when showing it to American users. Mexicans will still get Gulf of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Toponyms"","block_context":{"text":"Toponyms","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/toponyms\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1836507,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/gulf-of-america-apple-conforms-ap-punished-for-not-doing-so\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836388,"position":2},"title":"‘Gulf of America’: Apple Conforms, AP Punished for Not Doing So","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Google isn\u2019t alone: Apple is also changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America to its maps. According to Bloomberg, the change is happening today for U.S. users and rolling out globally later, which if true is a lot more compliance than Google is showing. AppleInsider, TechCrunch, The Verge. Apple\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Censorship"","block_context":{"text":"Censorship","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/censorship\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1836251,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/more-reactions-to-gulf-of-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836388,"position":3},"title":"More Reactions to ‘Gulf of America’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 January 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"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 the change, which reveals some nuances and complications despite the utter lunacy of the situation.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Toponyms"","block_context":{"text":"Toponyms","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/toponyms\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787592,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/heinrich-c-berann\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836388,"position":4},"title":"Heinrich C. Berann","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"I can\u2019t believe that, other than a brief mention in 2010, I\u2019ve never written anything about the cartographic artist Heinrich C. Berann (1917-1992), whose work includes panoramic paintings for National Geographic and, in his later years, for the National Park Service. 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