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GOOGLE HAS CONFIRMED that it will add a ‘Gulf of America’ label to the Gulf of Mexico on its Maps app following Donald Trump’s bid to rename the body of water.
Trump has been adamant on renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Trump signed an executive order about the name change hours after he returned to the White House, which has since been reflected in official US government communications.
The new name that Trump’s administration is using will now be shown on Google Maps for US users.
Outside of the US, Google users will see both Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America listed at the spot on the map.
“We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said in a statement on social media.
When that happens, it said, it will update Google Maps in the US “quickly” to show Gulf of America.
“Also longstanding practice: When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too,” it said.
The gulf, which covers a surface area of more than 1.5 million square kilometres, is sandwiched between the southern coastline of the US and the northern coastline of Mexico, as well as Cuba to its east.
A US president has the authority to rename sites within the United States. However, the Gulf of Mexico “is a body of water that borders several countries and includes pockets of high seas”, deep-sea ecologist Andrew said Thaler, founder of Blackbeard Biologic Science and Environmental Advisors.
“There really isn’t any precedent for a US president renaming international geologic and oceanographic features,” he said, saying that an attempt to do so would be only “symbolic”.
Thaler called the move by Trump “very silly” and said it would likely be ignored by maritime professionals.
Trump also changed the US government’s official name for the Denali mountain in Alaska.
The Alaska Native Koyukon people have called the mountain by the name Denali for centuries.
Over the last 150 years, others have tried to rename it for political reasons, including the US naming it Mount McKinley in 1917 after former president William McKinley. The Obama administration officially restored its name to Denali in 2015 but Trump has now ordered it be changed again to McKinley.
Additional reporting by AFP
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Looks like a very well managed response from dfb.
@Toca Stories: agreed. Not an easy job ..
How’s the traffic now, with the woke city transport plan to cut off the thoroughfare?
@Rafa C: 60% less traffic and 20 minutes won for commuters so it’s pretty good. No need a car to go in the city center so it doesn’t matter.
@Alex: not what it i was asking. Presume you meant 20 minute walk. Which was always the case.
@Rafa C: They meant worse for car drivers and better for everyone else
@Mick Duvanny: not what I was asking though.
@Rafa C: As I said, it is better, can’t you read? Are you missing some grey matter or having trouble to understand basic concepts?
@Rafa C: It’s 20 win for commuters by bus not walk. I assume you don’t live in Dublin so you are just a clueless potato.
@Rafa C: how can a traffic plan be woke? Lol.
@Alex: Born and bred in Dublin, don’t live there anymore. I’m asking how the traffic diversion has affected the already diverted traffic and is it adding to the problematic traffic in other areas.
@John Moore: The traffic plan is an example of ‘woke’ thinking because it’s based on a pretentious ideology that aims to redistribute traffic for the supposed benefit of the wider community. It’s sold as a progressive solution to congestion or pollution, but in reality, only a small group of people benefit, while the majority are negatively affected. It prioritises symbolic gestures over practical outcomes, leaving thousands stuck in longer commutes or forced into less convenient routes, all to satisfy an agenda that sounds good in theory but doesn’t actually improve the situation for a majority of people.
@Alex: and save your nasty comments if you can’t reply kindly then don’t
@Rafa C: Alex’s first language must not be English from what I can read. His posts are barely legible. And then he tries to be smart out of embarrassment by saying his grey matter spiel. He is to he pitied really.
@Pat Corr: Agreed – it was a basic question and still hasn’t been answered.
bloody scooters always going on fire!
bloody EV’s always going on fire!
Oh wait, its a truck and its not electric at all.
Who knew that filling a truck with flamiable liquad would be dangerous!
@Martin Bishop:
Except diesel isn’t a flammable liquid (note spelling)… It’s classified as combustible.
@Regular John: Determining if diesel is flammable or combustible depends on its flash point (the minimum temperature at which fuel vapours given off by a flammable liquid can catch fire if exposed to a flame). This is why throwing a match into some types of diesel will put out the flame, but you can’t do this with petrol.
Flammable fuels have a flash point below 60 °C, however the flash point of diesel varies between about 52 °C to 93 °C, so depending on the blend is can be classed as a flammable liquid.
Diesel in Ireland has a flash point of >55°C, therefore Diesel is classed as flammable liquid. This is the classification for Diesel in Ireland:
4.3.1 Overland transport
Class: 3 – Flammable liquids
Danger code: 30
ADR classification code: F1
ADR danger labels: 3 – Flammable liquid
On the other hand, biodiesel has a flash point >130 °C, it is a combustible liquid.
That said, a combustible liquid can become a flammable liquid if heated enough, e.g, heating a fuel tank in a fire that then ruptures. Thus, the question if a fuel is combustible or flammable, in a fire, is often a moot point.
@David Jordan: an epic technical burn bravo
@David Jordan: Ha ha… I don’t think you actually know what flashpoints mean. You’re a great man for going straight to Google on subjects you obviously know nothing about.
A flash point of 52⁰C means the fuel is not flammable until it reaches that temperature. I don’t think we’ve ever had that kind of ambient temperature in Ireland and that is why diesel is not considered flammable. A match thrown into a bucket of diesel at ambient temperatures will always put out the flame, not sometimes as you state, always.
Looks like the fake news by Jak has been scraped! Good call.
@Alex: How can news be scraped?
Hopefully the structural members didn’t get hit with too much heat. Fire and structural steel aren’t a good mix.
Now that it’s reopened I’ll go on!
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