Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) urged Apple to formally change the identify of the Gulf of Mexico on its mapping platform following President Trump’s Monday government order declaring the land mass the Gulf of America.
“Hey @tim_cook, just noticed Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Sent a report through the app, but thought you’d want to know,” Crenshaw wrote in a Tuesday put up on X tagging the corporate’s CEO.
The previous president’s transfer comes days after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) launched a measure within the Home to rename the Gulf of Mexico because the “Gulf of America.”
An analogous invoice was authored by Democratic state Rep. Stephen Holland (Miss.) in 2012 in a satirical effort directed at Republican lawmakers, in line with NPR.
The laws was finally referred to a committee however didn’t go.
In contrast to Holland, Trump wouldn’t want a legislature’s approval to rename the physique of water. However he would want some assist from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
It’s unclear if an government order would trump the board’s conventional processes which requires enter from impacted municipalities.
“Upon receipt of a proposal to change the name of a natural feature, or that of an unincorporated populated place, canal, channel, or reservoir, all interested parties will be asked to comment,” the board acknowledged on its web site.
Trump can also must request a proper change with the Worldwide Hydrographic Group — of which each the USA and Mexico are members, in line with the Related Press.
The company works to make sure all of the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and in addition names a few of them.
Nevertheless, there are situations the place international locations discuss with the identical physique of water or landmark by completely different names in their very own documentation, as reported by the AP.
Digital mapping methods are outlined by means of firm requirements which embody floor surveys amongst varied different sources. Apple and Google Maps didn’t instantly reply to The Hill’s request for touch upon whether or not they would work towards renaming the ocean basin.
Cook dinner, Apple’s CEO, spent a lot of the inauguration day with Trump on Tuesday.
He attended a morning church service at St. John’s, adopted by the formal inauguration ceremony contained in the Capitol Rotunda and conventional luncheon amongst different occasions.
A variety of different tech trade leaders, together with Trump ally Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, have been additionally in attendance at Tuesday’s inauguration.
