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> So you prefer google to be the arbiter of what are official names within each country? No, but they are certainly the arbiter of what names they use on the m
by JohnFen 1mo ago
> So you prefer google to be the arbiter of what are official names within each country?
No, but they are certainly the arbiter of what names they use on the maps they produce.
- SahAssar 1mo agoSo you want them to take a political stance on every naming and territorial dispute?
- JohnFen 1mo agoI wasn't asserting that, I was only pointing out that they can call any feature anything they like on their own maps. But no, I don't want them to take a political stance on every naming dispute. In this case, however, when the "dispute" is between a clearly incompetent president and the nation he presides over, yes, seeing companies standing up against the madness would be welcome.
- SahAssar 1mo agoThat is taking a political stance, which also means that everytime that they accept a change will also be implicitly a political stance.