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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

After announcing it would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Google has officially changed on its Maps application.

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Naming things is complicated.

It’s not really a case where some organisation has the authority to name something. Rather people just call something a name, and organisations adopt that name.

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