And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...
While the US government can change the name of US geographical features in official domestic documents, and other countries could change their terminology, there is no obligation for the latter to ...
The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google on Thursday to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a ...
after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change the name within the federal government. Google Maps users in Mexico still see ...
Google no longer lets users leave reviews for the Gulf of America after the company updated its maps to comply with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. The Gulf of ...
Google Maps announced Monday it had updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.
The Geographic Names Information System database changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this week. It came after President Donald Trump's executive order on his ...