• CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    oh, thats 100% what happened.

    “should we vary what these are called by country?”

    “ehh, that would cost like $10,000 of developer time around the globe, just standardize it”

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      1 hour ago

      No its the same as the recent Google move of renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, it is not easier, it just appeases trumps new mandates. Open Map systems around the world already include terms for Country/State/Province/territory, etc. Its a tag label in a program field.