Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America

Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America(theverge.com)

7 points by georg-stone 1 year ago | 7 comments

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018825

nielsbot 1 year ago |

So did this change at the US agency level? Or is this preemptive?

1659447091 1 year ago | |

> "President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the name change in January, and the change entered the federal naming database, the Geographic Names Information System, this week."

Temporary federal change until the next president signs an executive order un-doing it.

tssva 1 year ago | |

It changed at the US agency level.

dnjdkdldh 1 year ago |

This is Apple appeasing Trump. They'll change it back if another branch of government successfully challenges the change.

Apple has made the business decision that this petty thing will appease Trump, and that appeasing him will help their bottom line. Gross.

1659447091 1 year ago | |

This is Apple following a federal name change. There are actual "gross" things being done to appease Trump by others; this is not one of them. If it were it would have been done in January when the order was signed, not this week when it hit the naming database.

alwillis 1 year ago | |

Google did the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/news/609772/google-maps-gulf-of-ame...