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22july2013 said:

coolfactor said:

tzterri said:

From what I understand, it's only for American devices the rest of the world will still see the Gulf of Mexico.

As this is an executive action it will disappear with the next president. 

Are we great yet because I'm just embarrassed

Still showing as Gulf of Mexico here in Canada. I actually appreciate Google's approach of using both names. Embarrassed you should be, as should everyone with a conscience. We are witnessing a world-changing/destroying leadership in action.

I'm in Canada and I'm seeing "Gulf of America" in Apple Maps.

"World destroying leadership"??? For changing a name? You must really hate Biden then, since he probably set the record for changing 650 geographical body names in 2022 alone. But Trump changes one name, and you call him a destroyer of civilization. That's called TDS. Look it up.

And you probably don't know this, but each language and country has its own right to name any feature by any term it wants, for use within its own country. For example, "Mount Everest" is known by many different terms in many different countries. Map makers refer to each country's database of geographical terms to provide individual names for each country. Some languages refer to the "Andromeda Galaxy" as "Fairy Maiden Galaxy." If Trump tried to rename the Andromeda Galaxy to "American Eagle Galaxy" you would probably call him a "civilization destroyer" for that too, right?

msuberly said:

This is outstanding.  Congrats to Apple for displaying the official name.  Same with Mount McKinley.  Fort Bragg is next.