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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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In posts on X on Monday, Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on its Maps app.
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    ☞ https://www.openstreetmap.org

    https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/ or https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

    Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. 
    

    https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ or https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

    This project aims at providing comfortable map viewing and navigation (routing) application for mobile devices. Particular stress lies with complete offline features (via pre-loaded offline map data) or economic internet usage.
    

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/akylas.alpi.maps or https://github.com/Akylas/alpimaps

    Alpi Maps is a map application to help you prepare and enjoy your hike! Get all the info you need before you go, then enjoy all the data offline during your hike.
    
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      Ios: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1007331679 https://apps.apple.com/app/id934850257

      Also fun fact the official apple maps app is mostly based on OSM.

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        people don’t degoogle to use apple instead

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      OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) “the official name that the US says it has”. In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any “official US names that are not in common use yet”. Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.

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