Well google maps can fuck right off, the cowards. What are everyone's recommendations for alternatives?

Sundar really likes kissing the ring

Kind of expected, Google maps show you a different version depending of where you are, aligning with your government position.

Well, if that's how it works, every country now needs to renames the US to something else on their maps. Whoever has the best name wins something - like, the Olympics or free membership to the UN.

Suggestions now open, I'll start: "Little Girls Blouse"

IMO it should be called the Chicxulub Gulf, since the most significant thing to happen there, objectively speaking, was the end of the Cretaceous.

Google has no spine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, they reclassified Crimea as Russian territory on the localized Russian version, and in a lot of locales they either flag it as disputed territory, or territory belonging to no nation.

you bet your ass they're going to do whatever Daddy tells them when it comes to the US. Lmao.

America isn't a sovereign nation anymore, its a slave state beholden to Corpo Syndicates, The Russian Mafia, and Israel. Trump is just a dumbass they put in front of the camera to serve as a public face to the shadow mafia.

Open Street Maps is a thing. Use it.

It's also publicly editable and used to generate a bunch of other maps - even for government use. It would be a damned shame if people created burner accounts and started renaming things owned by Trump and Musk...

This is some next level dumb shit.

The important part is "for US users". The rest of the world does not care about Trumps childish tantrums.

Good to know that the US needs it's own safe space haha

Small dick energy

Google is just asking people to switch to Organic maps with this one.

Apple maps for those wondering:

You can really tell how sheltered yanks are with this news.

This is pretty standard for Google maps. Names of locations change depending on what version of maps you use.

Google will use the official data from the government of whatever region it is, and the government Americans voted for changed the name.

Pulling a Xi, are we? Amazing to see where the orange overlord is getting his inspiration from.

I kind of get the whole 'Gulf of America's, at least conceptionally, America is the continent yada yada yada, it's fine, it's silly but fine.

But the Mount McKinley stuff is really baffling to me. Afaik McKinley never even visited Alaska during his presidency, alaskans themselves tried to change the name since at least the 1980s and the only thing that stood in the way was Ohio, as McKinleys home state, blocking the name change, until in 2015 they eventually relented and the name was changed back to its original indigenous name.

Why would they change it arbitrarily again? I don't understand? Is it just racism and it by chance happened during Obama's presidency?

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I will start calling the US Mexico of the North

Get ready for some other bootlicking from Google, then Trump will write an executive order to drop the antitrust cases against Google.

The majority of the Gulf is not owned by a nation. There are legal boundaries. The US cannot dictate the name. As usual, trump is an idiot.

Did anyone read the tweet? They are defending their decision not to change the name, because the change isn't official. No, they haven't "announced they will change the name".

Yeah, you can logically conclude based on that that they will update it once it's official, but the reporting is the opposite of what they said.

Switched to Apple Maps a few months ago, just one more reason to never switch back.

Stupid is as stupid does.

This is what we call "bitch behavior".

It's the Gulf of Mexico.

Google has sucked for a very long time. They’re greedy, monopolistic sociopaths that scrubbed “don’t be evil” from their principles pretty much the second there was a buck to be had from it.

They're renaming "New Mexico" to "South America"