I can’t believe I still have it but I’m going to start actively changing emails on all my old accounts on services I had registered with gmail before I switched.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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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.
- It sounds snappier than McKinley
- It actually had that name before. It wasn't just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
- McKinley had nothing to do with the area, he was gov of Ohio. He never even visited it, it was just named after him to curry favor with him.
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
Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven't heard of?
As slurs go it's pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English "rosbifs", if they even still do that.
You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.
I'm amazed people care the slightest about this...different countries call the same places different things, it's exceedingly normal and nothing out of the ordinary.
I care because it's dumb and petty, and I refuse to let dumb petty things get an easy pass.
Freedom gulf
Some Alternatives:
Organic Maps (Mobile)
EDIT: Added Organic Maps
EDIT: Removed Apple Maps since they've made their change.
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?
No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss
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.
/googles "boot licker"
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
Google a lil' bitch
EDIT: little to lil'
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.
I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.
weak.
It really sucks that Google dropped "Don't be evil" from their mission statement.
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)
Wait.....are you saying if I go to Japan, and learn the language, they'll refer to it as Nihon, and think I'm a stupid American for saying Japan instead?
@Lost_My_Mind @shalafi English speaking Japanese call it Japan whole speaking English. Things have different names in different languages.
Baka Gaijin, but yes.
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!
It's from an old Portuguese recording of the Mandarin Cipan. So, yeah lol
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