I use Organic Maps, and also have OsmAnd. Great maps, poor search. I'd love to know if there's an app with better search.
"official_name:en-US"="Gulf of America"
but it changes regularly (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190). How the map providers deal with this tag is up to them. There's actually a huge discussion how to deal with this. It's... complicated:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...
As an aside, I do really like organic maps. I keep it installed with downloaded maps for when I travel to places with poor signal, including hiking trails.
For example, Islas Malvinas (for Argentina) / Falkland Islands (for the UK).
Here in the Czech Republic it now shows up as "Mexický záliv (Americký záliv)". Why are they adding "Americký záliv" in a parenthetical? It's not like the executive order has any effect outside the US. Why would they change the name in any way anywhere but in the US? By what reasoning would they change the name in the Czech Republic but not in Mexico? US official naming means nothing to Mexico just as it means nothing to Czech Republic.
The McKinley name for the mountain was by a prospector, ginning up support for a presidential candidate. A bunch of people showed up, started digging for gold, and just ignored the local names for things.
Denali is historically relevant, and locally relevant. It seems like a reduction in politics, not a continuation.
Seriously though, let the locals be in charge of naming things. As a Texan, I've always just called it the Gulf. But if asked, it's full name is Gulf of Mexico, named after the Mexica (the Aztecs to you and me).
This time around, it's just as stupid, it's just coming from the other side.
I'm hoping this exposes both sides to how ridiculous this crap is.
For me, no rename will ever surpass freedom fries:
The reason I've heard is that contemporary Academics were simply comfortable with their terms, and unwilling to change them. It was inertia, which combined with their power as America's secular theologians, weighted the discourse away from their privilege.
Someone recently pointed out that this sort of thing is a test to divide the people into two groups: those who comply, and can be counted on to comply with whatever comes next, and those who protest, and are clearly a problem that might need to be dealt with. The people who are silent can generally be counted on to remain silent.
But even if you don't care about such political implications, it's ridiculous that Google is also forcing this onto the rest of the world.
But I was already planning to rely more on OSM anyway. I suggest that everybody who objects to this grandstanding do the same.
Yeah I was surprised (and frankly annoyed) by this as well, I don't see the value of showing this to everyone in the world when all of this relates to a "drama" played out in one country over the course of one presidential term with close to zero chance of extending that to another term (the guy is already 78 years old and it's showing in his ever more erratic behavior). I sure hope we can forget about this nonsense 4+ years from now...
Also if you zoom out enough it shows the name as both.
https://etvbharatimages.akamaized.net/etvbharat/prod-images/...
America is not exclusive to the US but a whole continent, for the much larger part comprising many more spanish/portuguese speaking countries and also Canada.
The US basically is only the increasingly annoying bully in the middle.
Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
I wish they had a native android app - Any way to easily set up that page as a PWA?
People can say whatever they want about rules and procedures and precedents and whatever else, but this was absolutely a signal to Trump that they are in line.
Just wait until Google effectively re-draws the border of Ukraine to Putin's liking and labels Taiwan as another province of China.
