{"id":1836778,"date":"2025-02-17T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836778"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:35:29","slug":"gulf-of-america-compliance-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/gulf-of-america-compliance-and-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gulf of America’: Compliance and Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Apple Maps (screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Compliance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

While it was reported<\/a> 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<\/a> and show both names. Above is what I see in Canada; I wonder what Apple is showing Mexican users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Axios, citing its mainly U.S. audience, is adopting \u201cGulf of America\u201d (HuffPost<\/a><\/em>, The Hill<\/a><\/em>, The Wrap<\/a><\/em>) but had this to say about the White House blacklisting the Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cAt the same time, the government should never dictate how any news organization makes editorial decisions. The AP and all news organizations should be free to report as they see fit. This is a bedrock of a free press and durable democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resistance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The name change is broadly unpopular<\/a> and people are finding ways to resist it. If \u201cGulf of America\u201d becomes a way to signal compliance with the regime, it looks like \u201cGulf of Mexico,\u201d even on a t-shirt (which I\u2019ve seen already), will signal noncompliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryce Bostwick has released a Chrome extension that restores \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d to Google Maps<\/a>. As he says, \u201cThere are a lot of scary executive orders being issued right now. This is not one of the most important ones. But it might be the easiest to defy.\u201d This apparently took some reverse engineering, as he explains in a 24-minute video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MapQuest\u2014remember MapQuest?\u2014has not as yet complied with the Trump executive order; in fact, they\u2019ve decided to have some fun with it, with a tongue-in-cheek tool that allows you to rename the Gulf yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MapQuest (gulfof.mapquest.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>;\u00a0Google and the Gulf<\/a>;\u00a0\u2018Gulf of America\u2019: Apple Conforms, AP Punished for Not Doing So<\/a>;\u00a0\u2018Gulf of America\u2019 Isn\u2019t Going Over Well<\/a>; Is \u2018Gulf of Mexico\u2019 Worth Fighting For?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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":[490,692],"tags":[83,82,1719,81,448],"class_list":["post-1836778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-censorship","category-toponyms","tag-apple-maps","tag-google-maps","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-mapquest","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836993,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/a-gulf-of-america-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836778,"position":0},"title":"A ‘Gulf of America’ Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 February 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Two long reads on Apple, Google and the Gulf of America nonsense. 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