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Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[–] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Omg I'm looking at the pull request for this change right now and there's almost 100 comments on it

Most of it are random software engineers from various ethnicities suggesting better translations for the non-English changes

People were debating exactly what the geographic boundaries/regions are for the which version you would see to decrease the odds of overall public backlash worldwide

Some people were trying to protest the change and citing laws and saying Google shouldn't kowtow to Trump

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What you mean pull request? I thought gmaps was closed source. Maybe wikipedia comments?

[–] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

It is closed source. I have access to the PR

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