Google Maps will demonstrate the so -called “Golfe of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for US users once the official government resources are updated to reflect the replacement of the ordered call through President Donald Trump Trump the week Passed, in a resolution that is aligned with corporate policies by managing dispute calls for geographical characteristics.
The company said it had a “long data practice” to call adjustments when “updated in official government sources” and for the United States, they would be the calls that are shown through the data formula in geographical calls (GNI) have been “updated in the United States. .
The company said the GNI is updated to show the “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” and “Mount McKinley” instead of “Mount Denali”, Google Maps will reflect the changes.
Google said it aligned itself with its “long-standing practice” to display the official local call from a geographic feature “when official calls are extended to the other countries. “
This means that US users of Google Maps will see the call of the “Gulf of America”, while Mexico users will see the “Gulf of Mexico”.
Users of the rest of the global will see any of the names on the map.
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The control of Google maps of the played borders and geographical places has been debatable in the past. The corporate now presents other effects on Google Maps according to the search for a user. For example, in India, the Kashmir region is completely shown within the country’s borders. However, when it shows from the country’s doors, the Kashmir is represented as a territory in dispute, the map that highlights the controlled portions through Pakistan and China. Another example is the same water frame represented as the “sea of Japan” for users in Japan, while it looks like the “oriental sea” for users of South Korea. For users outside the doors of the two countries, the water frame is classified “sea of Japan (Eastern Mar)”.
The replacement of the call of the Gulf of Mexico one of the many decrees signed through Trump on his first day in power. The ordinance said that the new call is “in popularity of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance for the economy of our country. ” The order also called to remember the highest summit in the United States from Denali to Mount McKinley, the call of the Alaska Pico before 2015. According to the Executive Decree, the internal secretary will have 30 days to promulgate adjustments on behalf of the database GNIS. Once the amendment is implemented in GN, all cards, contracts and other federal signature documents must use the new official call.
Trump reverses the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”. This is what it can, and – do. (Forbes)
Trump renamed Denali in Mount McKinley – is what he should know (Forbes)
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