{"id":1836507,"date":"2025-02-11T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836507"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:33:50","slug":"gulf-of-america-apple-conforms-ap-punished-for-not-doing-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/gulf-of-america-apple-conforms-ap-punished-for-not-doing-so\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gulf of America’: Apple Conforms, AP Punished for Not Doing So"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google isn\u2019t alone: Apple is also changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America to its maps. According to Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, 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<\/em><\/a>, TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>, The Verge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple and Google are changing their maps despite being legally required to do so, at least according to a report from the Congressional Research service<\/a> (via Engadget<\/a><\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BGN decisions are not required to be adopted for nonfederal domestic publications. For decades, the Alaska State government has used \u201cDenali\u201d in place of \u201cMount McKinley\u201d on state publications and maps. The E.O. would not mandate changes to the usage of \u201cDenali\u201d by the State of Alaska. Similarly, the E.O. would not require private company applications, such as Google Maps and Apple Maps, to adopt the changed names. Nonfederal entities may choose to adopt BGN naming conventions moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That they\u2019re doing so can be explained easily enough: fear of retaliation. Something the Associated Press discovered today: they announced last month<\/a> that they\u2019d continue using \u201cGulf of Mexico,\u201d citing their global role and reach. From an AP statement today<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP\u2019s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP\u2019s speech not only severely impedes the public\u2019s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As I wrote<\/a> when this first went down: \u201c\u2018Gulf of America\u2019 is basically a loyalty test\u2014a MAGA shibboleth.\u201d The point is seeing who obeys\u2014and who doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously:\u00a0Naming the Gulf<\/a>;\u00a0Google Maps to Use \u2018Gulf of America\u2019\u2013Others Not So Much<\/a>;\u00a0More Reactions to \u2018Gulf of America\u2019<\/a>; Google and the Gulf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google isn\u2019t alone: Apple is also changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America to its maps. 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