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To he fair, it's not really their job to define namings. This happens all over the world and all the time. The sea between England and France is called "Englis
by rich_sasha 2y ago
To he fair, it's not really their job to define namings. This happens all over the world and all the time.
The sea between England and France is called "English channel" in the Anglosphere and "La Manche" in France and many non-English-speaking countries. Crimea is separated by a dotted line from both Ukraine and Russia, not pretending it's still Ukrainian but also not granting it to Russia.
Poland decided to refer officially to the Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, using its historical name, Konigsberg (or rather Królewiec, its Polish translations) since Kalinin was a Soviet apparatchik, and Wikipedia followed suit. I can't easily check the maps.
Maps are the last place where I want to see any innovation or political statements. Just use whatever prevailing official name and be done with it. If the US renames officially the GoM to GoAmerica then I expect Google Maps to follow suit.