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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want

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MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want

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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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MapQuest's service has also refused to change the Gulf of Mexico's name, despite Trump's executive order last month to rename it as the 'Gulf of America.'
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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Water McGulfy

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      Gulfy McGulfface? Are we still doing that meme?

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        I mean we’re making it with MapQuest, if there was ever a time for necromemecy it’s now.

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      Gulfy McGulfface

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    7 months ago

    TIL MapQuest is still around.

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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      They have an app

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      Kind of makes me want to go back to printing 6 page instructions to destinations that I hold in my right hand and read whilst driving with my left hand.

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        deleted by creator

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        I kind of did this with sticky notes on the dash during my last road trip. I was travelling through an area I knew would have poor reception at the time, so I made a bullet point list of the main road changes.

        It was kind of nice not having to check a screen for directions.

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        You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.

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          I can draw a usefully realistic map of every city I’ve spent significant time in. I can also drive around a city as big as Los Angeles without GPS (though some of the fucking freeway exits in this town are fucking ass backwards).

          So when I’m in a taxi this weekend in a different city (not an Uber, an actual licensed cab) and he can’t even figure out where you want to go when showing him the map with the location… wow. He never actually did figure out where we wanted to go, we just held the phone for him so he could follow the GPS directions to one of the more popular neighborhoods in the town he drives in professionally.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          OpenStreetMaps works well, and OrganicMaps is really nice to use on mobile (same data, available offline).

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      Right? It’s a darn fine marketing effort.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I used their mapping and geocoding APIs for years, back when I was negotiating contracts. They’re good (at least in N. America) and 1/5th the price of google.

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    This is the type of content I need in my life.

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    Based MapQuest.

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    It’s really too bad that Mapquest still looks like it’s from the 90s

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      MapQuest is from the 1990s.

    • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world
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      At this point I think that’s probably a feature

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    Can we get over this and focus on the real shit that Trump is fucking up?

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      true people just aren’t talking about that at all

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    I’m still sold on Gulf Dukat.

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      Dukat would be proud that the humans in an alternate timeline, where he’s fictional, went and named something after him for all his great deeds.

      And then he’d find out why we’re really naming it after him and he’d try every underhanded trick in the book and a handful of new ones in order to find a way into our universe to show us how great he really is.

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    Fuckin gottem.

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    But don’t tell the Great Tricktator, or you goto jail immediately.

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    The real gulf of America is the gulf that Trump has ripped open between the US and its allies

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    Looks like his distraction is pretty effective.

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    That feature actually could be just a map overlay. Who did play with oruxmaps or qgis knows what it is…

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    Here Maps kept it as the Gulf of Mexico

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