Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, and politicians are upset
President Trump signed an executive order demanding that many landmarks change their names, including the Gulf of Mexico, but Apple Maps hasn’t changed. Here’s why it isn’t quite that simple.
Maps are a funny thing. For a long time, we studied global geography using a map designed in 1569, but it inaccurately shows North America and Europe as much larger than they should be.
Nearly five hundred years later, we’ve started adapting more recent models that accurately show continent size. I bring this up simply because maps are complicated and changing the ones we rely on can take a lot of time and effort.
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