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I'm all for dropping Google if you can, but this is not Google's fault, it's Trump's. Google is simply abiding by its policies of showing names chosen by a given country. If you're in Mexico, my understanding is that it still shows Gulf of Mexico.
Ah, and as far as dropping Google maps... seriously, I can't find a valid alternative with real time traffic data as good as Google, free or paid, what do you suggest?
I blame google. If it takes an act of congress to rename a post office then renaming the gulf should too.
Still not Google's fault.
I'm in Canada and it shows me the bullshit name. The way Google correctly handles highly temporary vanity bullshit is to limit the name change to just that country's users.
It shows me Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
The article says that for the rest of the world it still shows "Gulf of Mexico" ... I'm in the USA so I can't check. Are you saying that you are not in the USA and it shows both names?
Yes, here in Canada it shows both, with Gulf of America in brackets.
NZ here, shows:
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In Germany it shows Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)
Yes, it shows both, which is what makes it so ridiculous. The white nationalist government of one country on the entire planet refers to it by that name, the country that Google is based in, and everyone else in the world is forced to see it? You can't convince me that's not politically motivated.
Yeah, that is ridiculous. I don't really have a lot of respect for Google already, but this erodes what bit of respect I had left for them.
I've been using Here we go for years. I think it started as a Nokia project, that spun off to it's own thing. I started using to conserve data. You download the map of your region when you have Wi-Fi, and it's pretty low data load from there, directions and traffic updates mostly. I've been happy with it for a long time. I haven't opened g-maps in ages. I know there are other options out there, open source and what not, but I never felt the need to try anything else out.
Bull turkey.
1st Amendment: Trump can't order Google what to call any particular location. He can ask, Google can follow along (or not), and we can tell Google to get bent (or not).
Sure, all these giant corporations have no choice but to tongue Trump's butthole.
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But this is specifically not the country (as in Congress or the majority of people) choosing it. This was an Executive Order because Trump hates brown people. It's also not legal.
I find Waze has better real-time traffic info. Driving time estimates may vary a bit more, but I find it to be a more than adequate replacement for most tasks.
You do have to gut check some of its suggestions, though: it seems to think some roads are slower, even when they’re not as busy, and will route around them.
Waze has been owned by Google since 2013.
Isn't Waze owned by Google too?
Thanks for the suggestion, but yeah, Waze is Google. Also, unless it improved a lot lately, I really didn't like it, personally.
On Android, Organic Maps or OsmAnd are pretty good if traffic data is not needed, Magic Earth has "traffic" but it's not accurate and pales compared to gmaps. What else is there? sygic? tom tom? I tried them all a few years ago, they all had some big deal breaker. Maybe I should look at them again.
I've been trialling Here We Go in my quest to move away from Google and like it better than all the others so far.
In Canada it's now showing: Gulf of Mexico ( Gulf of America). Might be just a matter of time before they completely switch it over to Gulf of America.