{"id":1836993,"date":"2025-02-21T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836993"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:37:32","slug":"a-gulf-of-america-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/a-gulf-of-america-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Gulf of America’ Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two long reads on Apple, Google and the Gulf of America nonsense. Miguel Garc\u00eda looks the history of places with multiple names<\/a>, and how Google Maps in particular has handled them, using the Matterhorn (Mont Cervin, Monte Cervino) as an uncontentious example. John Gruber, whose Daring Fireball blog has covered the Apple side of the tech world for more than two decades, has a bracing, no-punches-pulled take<\/a> that covers the utter lunacy of the name change, Google\u2019s and Apple\u2019s history of obeisance to autocratic regimes and the excessive compliance involved in showing \u201cGulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)\u201d to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, even Fox News and Newsmax are among the 40 news organizations<\/a> who\u2019ve signed on to a White House Correspondents Association letter protesting the White House\u2019s blacklisting of the Associated Press for refusing to comply with the \u201cGulf of America\u201d edict.<\/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>;\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>;\u00a0Is \u2018Gulf of Mexico\u2019 Worth Fighting For?<\/a>; \u2018Gulf of America\u2019: Compliance and Resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two long reads on Apple, Google and the Gulf of America nonsense. Miguel Garc\u00eda looks the history of places with multiple names, and how Google Maps in particular has handled them, using the Matterhorn (Mont… 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":[83,82,1719,448],"class_list":["post-1836993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-censorship","category-toponyms","tag-apple-maps","tag-google-maps","tag-gulf-of-mexico","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":1836993,"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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