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Apple Maps now uses the ‘Gulf of America’ name instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico,’ with the US getting the change first before a global rollout.
Google is among the first companies to rename maps from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Other software leaders, like Apple Maps, are starting to follow suit.
Google Maps users around the world will see different names for the Gulf that shares near-equal lengths of shoreline with the United States and Mexico when they access the application.
Google Maps has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, after Donald Trump passed an executive order renaming the body of water in the eyes of the US.
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The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries Google says it will comply with President Trump’s order to change the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” on ...
The company said that Maps will reflect any updates to the Geographic Names Information System, a database of more than 1 million geographic features in the United States. “When that happens, we will ...