Donald Trump touts Google Maps renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

Google Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and President Donald Trump rapidly bragged astir the alteration that was his dong.

‘GULF OF AMERICA!’ wrote Trump connected his Truth Social level on with a screengrab of the assemblage of h2o named precisely that successful Google Maps.

The alteration was made connected Monday, aft Trump signed an enforcement bid to rename the oceanic basin that is mostly surrounded by Mexico and the US.

A Google hunt of Gulf of Mexico besides yields Gulf of America.

Google previously said that it follows ‘a longstanding signifier of applying sanction changes erstwhile they person been updated successful authoritative authorities sources’.

However, it is lone users successful the US who volition spot it named Gulf of America. Users successful Mexico volition inactive spot it labeled Gulf of Mexico, and those successful the remainder of the satellite volition spot it arsenic ‘Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)’.

Google successful a blog post noted that it rolled retired the changes due to the fact that ‘the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated’ the name.

It is not the lone alteration that Google has made to its platforms.

The Google Calendar nary longer includes Black History Month, Pride month, Women’s History month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, oregon Holocaust Remembrance Day.

‘Some years ago, the Calendar squad started manually adding a broader acceptable of taste moments successful a wide fig of countries astir the world,’ a Google spokesperson told The Verge connected Friday.

‘We got feedback that immoderate different events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable oregon sustainable.’

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