As a meteorologist, I couldn’t do my job without maps and names of places. One stands out.
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...
3 Controversial Maps From History
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
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Google officially changes Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Google Maps
Google Maps switched Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Monday. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google said.
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Google adds Gulf of America to its maps but scrubbed Pride from its calendar
“Gulf of America” is now in official use on a U.S. government database of geographic names and on Google Maps after President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order to rename the ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
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Commentary: Will Google Maps have regrets about America?
After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...
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Mexico says it might sue Google over ‘Gulf of America' name change on Maps
As of Thursday, how the Gulf appeared on Google Maps was dependent ... s first constitution, the North American territory was previously identified as “Mexican America”. Sheinbaum has used ...
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Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says it might sue Google
As of Thursday, how the Gulf appeared on Google Maps was dependent ... s first constitution, the North American territory was previously identified as “Mexican America”. Sheinbaum has used ...