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Don't forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It'll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.
Well that's OK. It's not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.
Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America
If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.
mapbox?
Hasn't OSM also said that they will change it once it's properly completed?
Anything that includes public transit routing? It doesn't look like OSM or MapQuest include public transit, and I'm not seeing an option to use Apple Maps via the web browser on Android.
For destinations I go to regularly, I can easily pull up schedules without Google maps, but if I'm going somewhere new, Google maps greatly simplifies the process of figuring out which route(s) to take.
You might need to add it to osm
Hmm. I did find it in the OsmAnd app, but I'm very confused. I think it's just showing me trip durations, not actual schedules, and definitely not live bus data, nor any option to find routes based on a specific departure or arrival time. For the route I tested, it gave me 4 different options, all of which list a departure time of 0:00, even though it's early afternoon here.
Digging around the other apps I use, it looks like the live transit data that I'm used to is free to access. Is there something I need to do to get that linked up?
Organic maps does
I see the option for transit directions in the app, but I've tried a few different destinations that I've regularly visited via bus, and it only gave walking directions for all of them. I also tried the airport, which I usually get to via rail, and it says that subway navigation isn't available in my region yet.
No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss
How’s that boot taste google
You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.
Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!
not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport
When they do it, We need to encourage people to report it as incorrect information. If everyone does it then it may be enough for show we don’t want this and don’t want to be seen as the fools the White House actually is.
Guess they'll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America...
This has "freedom fries" energy all over it.
What till y'all find out they label Nihon as "Japan".
Google's doing what they always do, following official government naming conventions. If, and when, the US officially changes the name, they will follow suit.
Personally, I'd rather they get their back up and say "no", but at least they're being internally consistent.
Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece "Hella" and Hungarians call Hungary "Magyarország" (Land of the Magyars)
I wanna know how "Nihon" got turned into "Japan" in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear "Nihon" as "Japan?" They don't even sound close! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!
Google a lil' bitch
EDIT: little to lil'
No, see y'all've got it backwards. It's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He's making it more inclusive!
/s
Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!
just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.
someone needs to make a Firefox plugin that reverts the change.
I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.
They honestly feel a bit like a satirical version of North Korea by isolating themselves with certain policies, and making crazy threats to anyone they can.
I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.
Gulf of Mississippi. Let them be #1 in something nice.
Pathetic
Freedom gulf
It really sucks that Google dropped "Don't be evil" from their mission statement.
Send error reports for every body of water in the unites States.
Label them all the gulf of mexico.
