Restore the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps https://fixthegulf.com/
Just spent 20 minutes finding an updated motor carriers Atlas.
It is spiral bound and laminated pages.
Google maps is handy… But like with all online services . We are at the mercy of license agreement…
Time to start thinking about going back to analog sources of information.
Edit: https://a.co/d/dIsSgha - is the one in getting.
Yes it’s an Amazon link… But buy used from an independent seller.
That was a fun educational watch seeing the thought process that goes into trying to figure how to interpret the data to make an extension.
I switched to Organic Maps on Android. I’m still figuring out how to make it convenient (some apps seem to prefer trying to open with Google Maps which is now disabled) but it works on Android Auto and gets me to destination just fine.
Organic map is crazy fast. I just wish it has trafic data but after a few weeks using it, that’s not a big difference in the end.
Traffic isn’t too bad where I’m at, but I find myself missing satelite images and streetview, both for exploring and locating garage entrances or anything else. Having said that, and thanks to my buddies here on Lemmy, I successfully eliminated over half of my proprietary phone apps and shoved all the remaining proprietary stuff in a single folder so I would only access it after trying the FOSS alternatives. Anything that has a web portal instead of an app is going next, and that includes Google Maps.
Organic maps is great, OSMand is great if more detail is needed.
I tried this on a trip a couple days ago and had to go back to Google. It wasn’t giving me street names or exits in the navigation. It’d say take the next right instead of take exit 17 for example. Completely missed a fork and didn’t tell me which way to go. Google has issues too but first impressions for organic was not positive.
For car navigation use Magic Earth. It’based on Openstreetmap too, Han has the best routing algorithm I found so far (yes, better than Google).
Openstreetmaps is an awesome setup just saying ;)
Who cares? How often does someone actually see the name of the Gulf when using maps?
I think that it being a Trump decision, people needs to get mad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With all the shit that Trump does, it makes more sense to get mad about things that actually matter.
Because if Google agrees to that kind of petty shit, you better know they’re gonna give your data and position to the government without a blink. De-googling yourself is just common sense at this point.
And every other mapping source out there that currently still labels it Gulf of Mexico will eventually change it to Gulf of America because that’s what it is recognized by the federal government. Name changes never prevent people from using the well-established name, a majority of users on X still refer to it as Twitter. It will always be Twitter.
Do you actually believe that Google has not been providing data to the government since the beginning?
And every other mapping source out there that currently still labels it Gulf of Mexico will eventually change it to Gulf of America because that’s what it is recognized by the federal government.
The US government doesn’t control map charts for the world. The Gulf of Mexico is International water, the US only controls a part of it. Even then, that executive order didn’t have that kind of power in itself, google is gladly enabling this shit because it’s in their best interest to stay as close to the other oligarchs.
And its not just this, if you think people are De-googling just because they made that change, you’re not looking at the big picture.
Do you actually believe that Google has not been providing data to the government since the beginning?
I knew it was happening to some extent but the impact it had on my life was minimal… Now the US government is at war with people like me, it is simply normal that I yeet anything that’s linked to those efforts and that I stop using services from mega corporations that will work with Trump to make all of his insane agenda come true.
You act like people are overreacting but the truth is we should have done this years ago.
Plus I’m not from the US so at this point and with Google being so close to Trump I trust them as much as I trust Tencent with my data, which is to say not at all.
Um no.
A state can decide what it names itself or names a part of itself (e.g. Black Lives Matter Plaza). The story of Ukraine illustrates this.
But geographers and cartographers don’t decide what to name a place or get orders from states by fiat (unless the mapper is a state agent working for a department) They name things based on what they’re called.
The gulf is known to most of the world and the International Hydrographic Organization as Golfo de México or in English, Gulf of Mexico, and calling it the Gulf of America (say by Google Maps) is political allegiance signaling, that they are MAGA or MAGA collaborators.
If you want to be spicy you can call it Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl or the House of Chalchiuhtlicue based on the South American deity of the sea. It has a nice ominous Siege of R’lyeh feel that reflects the tempestuous weather of the ocean expanse.
They have policy that updates names from official government sources. you people are making petty things are bigger deal.
