Re: Google & Apple maps changed the name of a large indentation of the Atlantic coastline

On 2025-02-12 10:56, Marion wrote:

Both Google Maps & Apple Maps on my iPhone & Android today show a change of
name in a certain large partly enclosed navigable coastline indentation.
*gulf of america*
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php? id=19070&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#19070>
 Have all the Google & Apple maps around the world reflected that change?

Nope.
How stupid are you?

 All I can tell so far by looking it up after seeing it described for a few
days on the Apple newsgroups, is that the Geographic Names Information
System (GNIS) occurred sometime around late January 2025 following a
certain executive order and concomitant Department of Interior public
announcement.

That's all you can tell?
Then you're not very bright, are you?

My question here, to the world at large, is how much of the world's GNIS
systems are following suit? Is there any statement, for example, from
whatever mapping system the UK or EU use to formerly identify places?

The "Geographic Names Information System" is an entity created by the US federal government.
Why would you even imagine that such an entity exists elsewhere by that name? Or are you just too ignorant to ask your question properly?

 Apparently the Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great
Britain proper, but the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) is
who advises the UK government on the correct form of geographical names
outside of the UK. Any status on that?
 The EU is trickier to pin down, where the EU apparently relies on
individual member states for internal names, although I can find references
to the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) which
seems to be who promotes standardization and harmonization of geographic
place names  through individual initiatives.
 Anyone across the pond have a status on what's changing or not for you?

Nothing is changing for anyone else, doofus.
<https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ungegn/nna/nna-committees/>
Educate yourself.