Google Maps now shows Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico for U.S. residents as Department of Interior officially ...

GNIS stands for Geographic Names Information System. The Department of Interior beat the Feb. 19 deadline by 10 days. Gulf of ...

This comes after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System updated the Gulf of America name earlier this month. Microsoft ...

it's now effective across all the federal government because it has been changed in the centralized Geographic Names Information System. Google also has updated its maps. Apple did not reply to a ...

GNIS stands for Geographic Names Information System. That would require the name change by Feb. 19. "We have a longstanding ...

Google made the change starting Monday. It followed an updated site listing for the Gulf in the Geographic Names Information System, a government database run by the Interior Department that ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. This change has faced opposition from Mexican officials ...

UPDATE 2/11: Google and Apple have officially renamed the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on their respective Maps apps after the Geographic Names Information System updated the name on its ...

Google Maps users in the U.S. will now see “Gulf of America” displayed over the body of water that was once labeled the “Gulf of Mexico.” Users in Mexico will still see the name “Gulf of ...

The company said it would update Maps in the US after the Geographic Names Information System made the changes. The GNIS, a database of more than 2 million physical and cultural features ...

Google has found itself back in the crosshairs of a geopolitical battle over President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, raising fresh questions over the role ...

Google made the change starting Monday. It followed an updated site listing for the Gulf in the Geographic Names Information System, a government database run by the Interior Department that ...