I’m trying to work out who this is for. Presumably his fan club will approve, but I don’t think it was something that even they were particularly asking for.

Yes but thry changed their own name, not the name of some other bit of the world that isn’t anything to do with them.

Middle English usage of Turkye or Turkeye is found in The Book of the Duchess (written in 1369–1372) to refer to Anatolia or the Ottoman Empire.[45] The modern spelling Turkey dates back to at least 1719.[46] The bird called turkey was named as such due to trade of guineafowl from Turkey to England.[36] The name Turkey has been used in international treaties referring to the Ottoman Empire.[47] With the Treaty of Alexandropol, the name Türkiye entered international documents for the first time. In the treaty signed with Afghanistan in 1921, the expression Devlet-i Âliyye-i Türkiyye (“Sublime Turkish State”) was used, likened to the Ottoman Empire’s name.

Türkiye had historical usage and precedent; “the Gulf of America” does not. Admittedly, Erdoğan was probably motivated by the same base nativist urges. But there’s something substantially different in saying “we want our nation to be called this” versus “we want to rename international territory.”

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The rest of the world obviously will not follow suit, but foreign companies selling maps in the US will have to comply, so it is just another exception that need to be handled. Naming and boundary disputes between countries have existed for years, and map makers just make enough versions to satisfy every country.

Someone was saying they want to rename it to work around the laws preventing drilling in the Gulf. It sounds really stupid, but that is on par for this shit show of an administration.

They’re on this stupid renaming kick. Renaming all the “woke” names back to the “original” white slavers and racists these places originally honored. There are few enough brain cells and energy in government and this is what Trump is making them waste it on. Gulf of THE AmericaS would make sense but obviously the intent is to claim it as the US’s.

They never fix bugs in maps. Some places IRL even got renamed, because it was easier than fixing the name in google maps.

There’s little point in doing so, other than the feel-good moment. Google, and all other mapping companies, ultimately take their data from official sources. This differs per country, so users of maps from outside of the US will continue to see Gulf of Mexico, but complaining that it is wrong will only be ignored because they’re following the data from the official US government source.

“Don’t be evil”

What about we be evil anyway?

Sadly though this was never going to be avoided, sure they’re leaning hard into conservative cult nonsense, but they were still on a downword optics trajectory. Its impossible not to have this happen in capitalism, it will always be inevitable that enshitifcation happens to milk profit from anywhere it can, and that will always look bad.

Wildly, people still think that about working at Apple, for now. I do see that changing slowly too though.

Open Street Maps needs more contributors!

Been playing the StreetComplete game, which is very much Pokemon Go but helping OSM data.

I don’t think it’s gonna work as well because people could afford to eat Big Macs everyday back then. No joke, the economic situation is so dire I’m saving up to treat myself and my boyfriend to a fancy dinner date…

The dinner is at fucking Waffle House