(TECHCRUNCH) — Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali mountain in Google Maps once a federal mapping database reflects changes ordered by the Trump administration, the company announced Monday. Google is complying with an executive order issued last week by President Donald Trump that changed the names of several American landmarks. The executive order was followed by a statement from the U.S. Department of the Interior, which said the name changes were now official and America’s geographic naming bodies were working “expeditiously” to fulfill Trump’s order. “We...

When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh. At her daily press briefing on Tuesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum largely shrugged off Google’s move, noting that Trump’s order only applies to the US continental shelf, suggesting that her country would not abide by it. “The Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico,” she said. Many of her fellow Mexicans have been...

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The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. You won’t be able to find the Gulf of Mexico or Denali on Google Maps anymore, at least by those names. In a post on X Monday, Google said it has received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” the company wrote. Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico...

Search and tech giant Google said Monday it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app, complying with executive orders signed by President Donald Trump. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," a spokesperson for the company said on Monday. Google said the changes align with its policy of following official U.S. government geographic designations through the Geographic Names Information System...

Google Maps users in the U.S. will soon see “Gulf of America” in place of “Gulf of Mexico” and “Mount McKinley” instead of “Denali” on the map, in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order issued last week. Google said in a series of posts on X on Monday that it is has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” The changes will go into effect “quickly,” it added, after the names are updated in the Geographic Names Information System, which...

Google pledged on Monday to change Google Maps to reflect President Donald Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and his reverting Mount Denali in Alaska to Mount McKinley. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google shared on X. It said the changes would be visible on Maps once the two names are updated within the government’s Geographic Names Information System, which is run by the Department of the Interior. (As of Tuesday...

Google Maps will soon change "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America," the tech company revealed on Monday evening. The imminent map update comes in response to President Donald Trump 's Day One executive order for the government to stop calling the body of water by its original name, instead suggesting that it should be named after the United States because it played a "pivotal role in shaping America's future and the global economy." Trump's left-field decision to focus on maps during his first day in office was met with...

New York (CNN) — Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” The name will be tweaked when the Geographic Names Information System, a government database of names and location data, is updated. Google will also change the name of Mount McKinley, the...

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps. The company said Monday that it will only make changes when the government updates its official listings for the body of water and the mountain. After taking office, President Donald Trump ordered that the water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba be renamed to the Gulf of America. He also ordered America’s highest mountain peak be changed back to...