silentjohn

Who gets to determine if they're unnecessary updates?

EDIT/Update: 'Lake America' is currently under discussion from our Geopolitical Policy Board.

external sources like Yelp, Trip Advisor, Localeze, FB

unlikely that all of them would still be out-of-sync with upstream

It's not like we all have one live server that ingests source changes and the customers will see it immediately. There is a massively delay, release schedules, etc.

Sure looks to me like Google made the change before the basemaps were updated

But yea, you could be right on this specific point

HERE Maps? Absolutely not. OSM is a competitor to HERE.

1000% agree. And maps are absolutely political, but this is just another distraction.

It's the official GNIS name now, and is usually just piped into the maps. There aren't people actually deciding which names to use at Google, HERE, whatever, etc ... we just push sources in.

They’re doing it because they want to. Because they know it will make Trump happy.

sure, ok ... guess you know more than my 20+ years experience at a digital map company that actually taught google how to make their maps.

HERE Maps will include the change, I 100% guarantee it. They have Gulf of America pushed to prod servers. (switch to US vpn location and you will see it)

source: I may or may not work for them 🫠

It is official in the eyes of the US Government. I'm simply explaining why some/most map companies will include the change.

We've got bigger things to worry about than feature naming tbh.

Hi, I work in the map industry. We generally don't get to decide what names to use for features. We apply what the local official name is (to simplify). That's why if you're in country A, feature X might be named something different than if you're in country B. You can imagine this would (and has) caused many conflicts around the world if we didn't display the local official name. (Switch your region via VPN and you can see this in action)

If Google renamed it to Gulf of America, no Google didn't, not really ... They just inserted the new official name for that feature according to GNIS.

Hi, I work in the map industry. We generally don't get to decide what names to use for features. We apply what the local official name is (to simplify). That's why if you're in country A, feature X might be named something different than if you're in country B. You can imagine this would (and has) caused many conflicts around the world if we didn't display the local official name. (Switch your region via VPN and you can see this in action)

If Google renamed it to Gulf of America, no Google didn't, not really ... They just inserted the new official name for that feature according to GNIS.

While I've moved to arr stack and usenet these days, I've literally never had an issue with TPB