• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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        Also a great choice. I prefer organic maps for a variety of reasons (like ability to contribute to the maps), but a lot of people prefer OsmAnd. They are both very good.

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      Bingo.

      Imagine getting every “alpha male” 2A nutjob violent conservative to realize who their actual enemy is.

      We’d get some actual positive change in an extremely short period of time.

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    This whole thing is extremely cringe. There isn’t any other way to put it. Trump. His executive order. The compliance. It’s all cringe.

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      Though to be fair cringe is like right in the very blood to Google anyway so what would you expect…

      I mean, just look at how they often respond on their bug tracker platform of most of their products and how they try to justify their endless streams of questionable design decisions, that seems to be characteristic of them at this point lol

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    Next president, assuming there is one, will just change it back to repair relations with our allies.

    Even if it never gets changed back, it’ll be a generation before people actually start calling it that. No one alive now is going to give a fuck about the Gulf of America or call it that.

    Hey conservatives, not that you’re intelligent enough to figure out how to get on Lemmy, but if by some miracle one of you reads this, why is Trump doing this and floating invading our allies and annexing their territories instead of lowering the price of groceries as promised on day 1?

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    Also, report an error to google maps:

    It reads: I read “Gulf of America”. That must be a mistake.

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    Had to check.

    Slowly working towards a viable OpenStreetMap in my area. If you want to help, you can make a free account and begin editing: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new

    You can also contribute on mobile by using Street Complete or any number of great mobile apps that allow limited editing and full map features like Organic Maps

    Edit: I didn’t know about Vespucci, which is a full-featured OSM editor for Android. Thanks, @onyxjet@lemmy.world

    Also be sure to check out !open_street_maps@lemmy.world

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      Vespucci is also full editor for android.

      There is also Go Map! A primary editor for IOS.

      Every door is a mobile editor that allows you to add new things and edit existing ones.

      ID is the main OpenStreetMap website editor.

      Rapid, essentially just ID but with a special edition of automatic building suggestions and such or what they call mapwithai.

      JOSM a full on editor for desktop, does everything ID or Rapid can do and a whole lot more. Its more of an advanced editor.

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      Thanks for providing that link. I knew about OSM, but didn’t fully grasp that (duh) it’s open which means I can help with the data. Time to get busy! :)

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    Interesting discussion about this on the OpenStreetMap forums.

    The resolution is introducing “official_name” tags, referencing “en_us”, because “en” is not just the U.S.:

    https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/11

    So when OsmAnd or OrganicMaps start to support them, maybe your locale settings will change the displayed name there as well.

    Current description of that node: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190/history/80

    So maybe that could be a reason for everyone around the world to stop using en_US locale settings. XD

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    UNITED STATES OF NORTH MEXICO
    I’m gonna start creating new pubs, bars and so on, everywhere I go, and call them Trump’s Mexican Deli, Donnie & Elon’s vacancy hotel, and so on. Please contribute (use an alternative google account)

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    I’m currently in France, this is what I see on Google maps Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

    What a f*cking joke 😂

    Maps.me shows the real name

    As does mappy.cz

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    Hum… Did they change the name of the North-America’s South-West like the Mexico president requested too?

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    Well. O. K. Then it’s my not the 'USA" that did this anymore. It’s to be called “North Mexico” now. Fair’s fair.