Topline
Google Maps will show the name of “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf Mexico” for US consumers, when government sources are updated to reflect the change of President Donald Trump’s name. Which is consistent with company policies on dealing with controversial names for geographical features.
Google Maps will be updated to disclose the name of “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf Mexico”.
Key facts
The company said When the name changes have been “updated to government sources”, and for the United States that will be a “long -term practice” to apply name changes to the United States that will be named by the Geographical Information System (GNIS) Is
The company said once GNIS is updated to display “Gulf of America” instead of “Mount Danali” instead of “Mexico’s Gulf” and “Mount Mac Canalie”, Google Maps of these changes Will reflect.
Google said the geographical feature is compatible with its “long practice” to show the official local name of the official local name “when the official name is different”.
This means that we will see Google Maps users “Gulf of America”, while Mexico users will see the “Gulf Mexico”.
The rest of the world will see both names appear on the map.
This is a developing story.
