Gulf of America (17 Viewers)

[Bill]

Welp, the new name is now official according to Google Maps.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The new name is now official according to Google Maps.

No way to discuss this without getting very political very fast

 

[Optimus Prime]

……..The U.S. cannot unilaterally change the name of a body of water which it shares with Cuba and Mexico because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles from the coastline, she noted.

“If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles,” Sheinbaum told reporters. “It cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to Google.”

But in a tit for tat, Sheinbaum is calling on Google to display the map of América Mexicana as including regions of the United States.

"We ask that when you put América Mexicana in the search engine, the map appears that we presented,” she told Google…….

Google has not responded to questions from The Independent on whether it will include sections of the U.S. on América Mexicana on Google Maps – once the switch is recorded in official Mexican documents, which is apparently the sole Google requirement for such a change.

The name América Mexicana was first seen on maps in 1607. It includes various areas in what is currently known as the United States.……

Mexico's president calls on Google to identify US as 'América Mexicana’​

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

I just wish I could afford eggs.

 

[Tapxe]

I just wish I could afford eggs.

I don't think I could care less about a name change. Hopefully this isn't outrage cover for other significant changes.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

eventually this will probably cause us to overshoot Mars again like the imperial v metric systems snafu

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Sailorsaint]

eventually this will probably cause us to overshoot Mars again like the imperial v metric systems snafu

You really think that's what happened?......

I wouldn't complain so much about a name change if it was "Gulf of the Americas".

 

[Sailorsaint]

"Wanna fight about it?"

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

You really think that's what happened?......

I wouldn't complain so much about a name change if it was "Gulf of the Americas".

 

[saintmdterps]

This thread appears on the same day as the Measles Outbreak thread. The US really is the dumbest country in the western hemisphere.

 

[Bill]

No way to discuss this without getting very political very fast

I'm just wondering how it will affect storm tracking during hurricane season:
"Mai, you don't have to worry about dat storm til it gets in da Gulf o' Mexico!"

 

[Madmarsha]

The new name is now official according to Google Maps.

Bill ...

 

[Madmarsha]

I'm just wondering how it will affect storm tracking during hurricane season:
"Mai, you don't have to worry about dat storm til it gets in da Gulf o' Mexico!"

There will be no hurricanes this year. I have forbade it.

 

[superchuck500]

There will be no hurricanes this year. I have forbade it.

"By the power of the magic sharpie, I cast ye storm to sea"