Rudie V.Feb 11, 2025
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. It would be just a total shame if we all flooded Google with feedback telling them the Gulf is labeled incorrectly.

Open Google Maps, zoom out and center on the Gulf of Mexico. Click on your photo in the upper right. Select Help & Feedback. Select Send Product Feedback. Report an issue. Tell them the Gulf of Mexico is labeled incorrectly.

Spread this far and wide! #MakeGeographyAccurateAgain
Show threadsettimaFeb 11, 2025

@thegardendude Unfortunately, us commoners can't change the way a nation decides to name something, see the banner at the top of this page: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names

and this comment on the OSM board here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/8

Geographic Names Information System

Gaz Web Application

Show threadJdeBPFeb 12, 2025

@settima @thegardendude

There is more to it than that, though. It is well known in the OSM world that the #GNIS is massively erroneous, and it is only the GNIS that #DonaldJTrump has ordered changed. It is a single name change in what is *already* a vastly unreliable source.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS

#MakeGeographyAccurateAgain #OpenStreetMap

USGS GNIS - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Show threadsettima
@JdeBP Thanks for that. I don't think anyone really understands the consequences of this one guy's antics.
Feb 12, 2025 at 9:50amWeb