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Between 2026 and 2028 Spain will become a paradise of eclipses. And we have new maps to know where they will look better

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The 2026 and 2027 will stand out in the astronomical: Two total eclipses in two consecutive years that can be seen from different areas of Spain. And if someone had been wanting more, 2028 keeps us a new eclipse, this annular, which can also be seen from the Iberian Peninsula. Many are already expectant, including experts from the National Geographic Institute (IGN). New maps. We refer in particular to those in charge of preparing the new maps, a new official guide to not lose detail of the three eclipses that await us in the coming years. The maps can be consulted on the IGN himself, In a special section Dedicated to this tool. 2026, 2027 and 2028. Between 2026 and 2028 we will have the opportunity to see three eclipses. The first of them will produce the August 12, 2026 And it will be visible as a total eclipse around a diagonal strip that will cross the peninsula between the western zone of Asturias and northern Castellón, and which will also cover part of the Balearic archipelago. The second eclipse will also be in summer, the August 2, 2027 And it will also be total. This time the Total Dark Strip will touch the Peninsula in the south, between Cádiz and Almería, including the coast of the province of Malaga. The third eclipse will arrive January 26, 2028will be annulled and its epicenter will move from the southern half of the coast of Huelva to the border between the provinces of Castellón and Valencia. A complete guide. IGN’s work offers us more than a visualizer, it constitutes a small guide to not miss key details when enjoying these eclipses. In addition to the maps, these guides include animations that explain, for example, how the shadow of our moon moves on the surface of the globe. Eclipse visualizer of August 2026. IGN/CNIG. Visualizer The visualizer The eclipse is probably the most interesting part of the new tool. It is a dynamic map in which we can see the evolution of the “stain” that leaves the umbra (the part of the shadow where it is complete and therefore the eclipse is total) over Spain and surroundings. We can also select a location and look for details such as the starting time eclipse, the total start, the maximum eclipse, and the end of the total eclipse; Elevation and Azimuth of the Sun, and the visibility profile depending on the elevation of the terrain around us. Planning issue. There are just over 13 months left for the first of These three eclipses But good planning can help us a lot not to lose detail of the eclipse. The last total eclipse, seen from the United States just over a year ago reminded us of these events. This It can be seen in the amount of displacements and in high hotel occupancy seen in the total concealment areas. To this it should be added that the two total eclipses of the coming years will occur in the middle of August, so an even greater number of displacements can be expected if possible. Nor does it appear to remember security measures, especially because of the fact that the stocks of specialized glasses For eclipses in the weeks prior to the event and those we use in previous events do not have to be used for the next. In Xataka | The solar eclipse of March 29 is the starting gun for something historical: Spain will see four eclipses in four years Image | IGN/CNIG

The largest map of the universe is now available thanks to James Webb. And it can be explored as if it were Google Maps

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Astronomers They were convinced that the primitive universe was a dark place. That the galaxies took to appear after the Big Bang. But the new largest and most deep map of the universe, which extends until 13.5 billion years ago thanks to the observations of the James Webb space telescope, has just dynamited this idea. You can explore it yourself. Is called Cosmos-Weband it is not just a mosaic of images. It is a detailed catalog of almost 800,000 galaxies that covers 98% of the entire history of the universe in a specific region of heaven, thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Webb Observatory. This gigantic panoramic is the result of More than 255 hours of observations of the NASA space telescope, ESA and the CSA, pointing to a region with very few stars or clouds of gas that block their vision towards the confines of the cosmos. The result is the largest contiguous image captured by the Webb to date, with more than 10,000 individual exhibitions. Comparisons are hateful. One way to understand the scale of this map is comparing it to the famous “Ultra -Profundo del Hubble”, the most detailed image of the universe in visible light. If we had a printed copy of the hubble ultraprophound field on a sheet of paper, Cosmos-Web would be a mural of almost 4 by 4 meters with the same depth. The Webb telescope observes wavelengths other than those of the Hubble, those of the nearby infrared and the middle infrared, but its instruments are so sensitive that you can see those 800,000 galaxies over 13.5 billion years in a region equivalent to three moons full in the night sky. Too much light, too soon. The great surprise of these images is not their depth, something for which the webb was designedbut what they reveal from the primitive universe. Astronomers believed that there would barely galaxies in the first 500 million years of the universe were incredibly rare, but there are approximately 10 times more galaxies than expected. “Since the James Webb space telescope went on, we have been wondering if your data They break the cosmological model“, admits Caitlin Casey, leader of the Cosmos-Web project.” The primitive universe only had about 400 million years to form one billion solar masses in stars. We just don’t know how it could happen. “ The role of Spain and open science. This monumental effort would not have been possible without a globa collaboration. And this is where Spain plays a role from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), which applied neural networks for the morphological classification of more than half a million catalog galaxies, an essential task to understand its evolution. But Cosmos-Web would not have been possible without the work of volunteers who, from their homes, helped for two years to process the raw data and correct artifacts of the Webb Telescope. Similarly, now anyone can explore the map and make their own discoveries. Cosmos-Web will continue to expand with new spectroscopic observations to analyze the internal chemistry of the most interesting galaxies. The main objectives are the “era of reion” (when the light of the first stars cleared the cosmic fog), the evolution of mass galaxies and how dark matter is related to visible matter. Image | Cosmos-Web In Xataka | The Webb Space Telescope observed some small red points almost as old as the Big Bang. They should not exist

One day, all Germans in Germany appeared closed on Google Maps. The problem is that nobody knows why

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He common sense It is the best guide to avoid mistakes. The problem is that it is easy for us to leave it aside while We blindly trust technology As if it were infallible. And if not, they tell the German German drivers because, just before a national bridge, they saw in Google Maps What half country had become a forbidden area. Short. On Thursday, May 29, the Ascension Dayeither Christi Himmelfahrt. It is a national holiday whose previous day is one of those who more displacements record. HE esteem That, at that time, there are between six and eight million displacements, but although many concentrate the day before the holiday, there are also millions of displacements the day in question. The surprise came when drivers who use Google Maps in your vehicle They ran into With this image in which you can see a “prohibited” symbol on the main roads that join the four cardinal points of the country and cities as important as Berlin, Hamburg or Frankfurt. Inutschland in GanzChaos Bei Google Maps: Dienst Zeigt Unzählige False Sperrungenhttps://t.co/qefirrihx3 – Peter Berger (@leosgeminix) May 29, 2025 Alternative road collapse. It may have happened to you that seeing a sign of “prohibited the step” and your common sense dictates that you should pay attention to that signal, but the GPS Indicates that you can go through that street and, for a moment, you lean to browse. We trust them because they do not usually fail, but given that vision of the main cut roads, and how we read in The Guardianthere were those who did not play it and decided to go on secondary roads. The result was expected: collapse in some of them, delays, travelers trying to find deviations to those main routes and many calls to the police and the traffic control authorities asking about the situation. Also speculation about a cyber attack (as with the blackout in Spain) or a terrorist attack. Citizen collaboration. There was also the case of people who did not attend to those stop signals and dared to circulate on those roads, supposedly, cut. When they could do it without problem, they began to report their cases and that was when Google began to act. The company began to eliminate those notices in the application and traffic was restored as the rest of the people undertook their trips and consulted a route on Google Maps that no longer had the warning symbols. Engadget He assures that the error only lasted two hours, but it is more than enough time for that avalanche of drivers on secondary roads. Ok, but … what caused it? Google’s response was extremely vague. As we read in Arstechnicathe company did not comment specific details and, in fact, a Google spokesman confirmed to German media that the company would not give details about the case. They limited themselves to saying that a technical problem had been investigated that showed temporary road closures inaccurately, but that it had already been solved. They also commented that Google Maps baby from three sources: user reportspublic sources and external suppliers. And there may be the “guilty” (among many quotes). The German Automobile Club is one of the largest automobile associations in Europe and, in the face of the holiday, He warned on possible retentions on those roads. The speculation is that the Maps failure was related to a “hallucination” of the application due to jamsstill, non -existent. Not all GPS. Now, those who had to drive with total tranquility that day were the users of Apple Maps and Waze. Although the latter is owned by Google, both showed the traffic data correctly, without any closing signal on those roads. Being so marked for the exits in Germany, the drivers who were guided with those apps had to drive quieter than ever. In the end, it was at anecdote and in travelers who arrived something later to their destination, but can also teach a lesson: having several alternativestaking an eye on each of them before leaving is not a bad idea. Image | Xataka assembly In Xataka | Register or pay the fine: Spain already has a toll road where you cannot pay in the window

The DGT has been pressing a five years against Waze or Google Maps. Your solution goes through copying the French model

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“You don’t know who you warn.” With these words, the DGT warned of the danger of giving the alarm of a traffic control through our mobile phone. It is no accident that The article It will be published in November 2024. The article clarifies the entire phenomenon seen with the one known as “Galician Method”. Last year, a person was denounced for alert 15,000 drivers through messages in a WhatsApp group of Civil Guard controls on the road. The problem is that There is no rule in the circulation code that prevents it. In the last decade, drivers have been perfecting the notices. The DGT points out that in 2012 some applications were already alerted to radars or controls but that the first boom came in 2014 with SocialDrive and Waze. Users had, in real time, information about fixed radars (That the public DGT itself) but also of mobile phones and controls. The second boom came with the Coronavirus pandemic. With the increase in road controls, users multiplied and since then many have climbed into a car from which they no longer get off. Who aspires to skip a Civil Guard control has the tools for it in Google Maps, Waze and even WhatsApp. And that is a real problem if we talk about alcohol and drug controls but also if, for a reason for general security, a device has been mounted to stop the suspect of a crime. Trying to put containment barriers, the Citizen Security Law to try to stop those WhatsApp groups with thousands of users. It is something that the DGT itself recognizes that states that in article 36.23 it is expressly prohibited “the unauthorized use of personal or professional data or professionals of authorities or members of the security forces and bodies that may endanger personal security.” However, they recognize that it is not enough and has been pressed to carry out a modification in the Traffic Law. At the moment, all that there is a proposal for the proposition of the Law born in the Commission on Road Safety of the Congress of Deputies at the proposal of the PSOE. It requested that the text reflect the obligation to “sanction those who provide information that hinders or prevents the control work of breaches of circulation standards”. In France it already applies This new wording would serve to end current doubts. The closest thing to receive a sanction for notifying the Civil Guard control is found in article 100 of the Civil Guard GENERAL CIRCULATION REGULATIONwhere the following is exposed: The use of long -range or road light is prohibited as long as the vehicle is stopped or parked, as well as alternative employment, in the form of flashes of long -range or road light and light or crossing light, with purposes other than those provided in these regulations The problem, obviously, is that this analog acting has been disused. This has led to the DGT has press and emphasize in the last five years that their intention is to chase those who use these applications to notify the controls. In 2020, Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, already put the focus on applications during mobility week in A Coruña where he pointed out his will to “Prevent, hinder or limit” Applications like Waze. The referent can have it in France. There, the famous traffic application cannot show mobile radars to users. It is an anomaly in Europe, as they collect in the Gauling country media. They point out that there the decree No. 2012-3 of January 3, 2012, which modified its circulation code more than a decade prohibits “Possession, transport and use of radar detectors”. However, this application extends to mobile applications, something that does not happen in Spain. Here, The law was modified in 2022 To punish the single presence of a radar detector. Until then the use of radar inhibitors and detectors was punished. For three years, the single presence of these devices is also punished with Fines of 200 euros and three points of the driving card for detectors and six points and up to 6,000 euros in the case of inhibitors. What the DGT wants to get is that the notices in mobile applications are also punished and the first step would be the modification in the traffic law that would allow copying the French model. What applications like Waze do is alert “danger zones”. To skip the restriction, the application allows you to add this notice on road sections, never in a specific position. With this notice, the driver already knows that a mobile radar or traffic control will be found later but is not specified in any case to stick or where it is installed. Photo | Waze on Instagram and Pricob ioan In Xataka | The DGT denounces the breakage of seven radars: there are up to half a million euros at stake and three -year jail sentences

What is, how it works and how to install the new European alternative to Google Maps with 25 years of experience

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Let’s explain What is Mapythe European alternative to Google Maps. It is an application that already has 25 years of history and experience, but that after having been all this time being a local tool has now opened to all. We are going to start explaining what this tool is and where it comes from. Then we will tell you its main functions, and we will end up giving you the links to be able to install and use it. What is Mapy Mapy is a map application that He was born in 1998 in the Czech Republic. During all these years it has been a local service in this country, initially with cars maps in certain cities. Then, the service was growing progressively. One of the keys to its growth was to have been bought by the Czech company Seznam.cz, which began to boost the application. The final step was given in this 2025, when they changed their domain .CZ for a .com, and began to work globally to reach more users. At the moment, mapy.com It has detailed maps around the world, and is translated into Spanish In addition to many other languages. You can use it both in a web version and in mobile applications. What Mapy offers Mapy offers practically the same as Google Maps. You have road maps around the world, but also a restaurant and public services index., including phones and opening schedules. You can also see the climate you make in the area where you are. With the maps you will be able to draw routes and receive indications when you are using it in the car. In addition, one of its differentiating characteristics is that information and Routes very thought for hiking or to go by bicycle. You can also look for ATMs or accommodations in the application. When offering you the routes you will not do it with Google services. Inside your country you use your own data, but when you go out of the Czech Republic Use Open Street Maps datathe open source service. You will have several layers of maps, including aerial photos, base, tourist information or winter maps. Also You can use the app in your car with Android Auto or Apple Car. The bad news is that, at least at the level of Spain, the information of the establishments is not so complete, and in some cases expired or erroneous data appears. Even so, You can send corrections whenever you want. There are also some services, such as real -time traffic information, which only work in certain countries such as Germany or Austria. Mapy has a free version and another paymentsomething understandable when you do not have the financial muscle of large companies such as Google or Apple. In exchange for 19 euros a year That you offer you will have routes to run or do several types of sports, speed meter walking or bike or download of offline maps on your mobile. How to use Mapy and lower your app You can use Mapy both with its official website and its applications For mobiles. The official website is mapy.com/eswhere you can start accessing its content. Then, applications are available In Google Play For Android and In the App Store of iOS. In Xataka Basics | 61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Dropbox, Google Drive, WhatsApp and other popular services

How to have the maps of your area on your Android or iPhone and be able to use them without internet connection

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Let’s explain How to have the maps in your area On mobile, both Android and iPhone. We are going to explain it step by step in two applications, which are the ones that come by default in each system. First we will tell you how to do it on Google Maps, and then we will explain it to you in Apple Maps. If we have learned something in recent days, a prolonged cut on the Internet can wreak havoc. And if this catches you when you have to use the car, then the problem is double when you cannot use navigation apps. That is why it is good to have a map of your area or that area where you are going to move, in order to use the maps without having an Internet connection. 13 tricks to get the most out of Google Maps Lower your area on Google Maps When you enter Google Maps, the first thing you have to do is press your profile picture that will appear above the right. This will take you to the options menu, where you have to click on Maps without connection that you will have with the icon of a crossed out. You will go to a screen where you can see the list of maps that you have lowered and the download recommendations of the nearby areas where Maps detects that you move. Here, click on the option Select your own map that will appear at the beginning. Now you will go to a screen where you can zoom or remove it to select the area you want to go down so that all its content is on the mobile and you can use it without connection. The larger the area plus space will occupy the data of the content within it. And that’s it, with this you can use Google Maps without connection within the area you have downloaded. Lower your area in Apple Maps When you enter Apple Maps, the first thing you have to do is press your profile photo below right. This will open the quick options, where you have to click on Maps without connection that will appear with the icon of a crossed cloud. You will go to a screen where you can see the list of maps that you have dropped. Here, click on the add a map buttonwhich will appear above right with the icon that has the symbol + sum. This will take you to a search engine where you have to Choose the area or city What do you want to download. This is only for Maps to take you, not to lower the city only, that is, write the name of yours. Now you will go to a screen with the chosen city, where you can zoom or remove it to select the area you want to go down so that all its content is on the mobile and you can use it without connection. The larger the area plus space will occupy the data of the content within it. And that’s it, with this you can use Apple Maps without connection within the area you have downloaded. In Xataka Basics | 61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Dropbox, Google Drive, WhatsApp and other popular services

Someone has found a satellite for the first time on Google Maps. All tracks point to a Starlink satellite

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There are people who spend hours exploring the most remote corners of the planet in the satellite photos of Google Maps, looking for surprising findings. But this time the surprise was not on earth, but in space. It is not a plane, it is a satellite. It is easy to find airplanes on Google Maps or Google Earth. Every day they fly between 100,000 and 120,000 planes worldwide. Not even poachers, such as bomber B-2, are safe from the satellite cameras that nourish Google maps with their images. The B-2 He was hunted in full flight A few years ago. But the bet has just risen with the most recent finding of A REDDIT user In coordinates 33 ° 44’39.0 “N 96 ° 44’46.2” W.: A rural Texas area, north of the city of Dallas. It is a satellite orbiting the land more than 27,000 kilometers per hour, which leaves the military plane at the height of a snail. Five colored spectra. The photo was taken on November 30, 2024 by a Pleiades European observation satellite, developed by Airbus. It is a picture that perhaps would have gone unnoticed if it were not for the five silhouettes of different colors that seem to be ghosts of the same satellite. It is actually the same satellite seen in five spectral bands. The black silhouette, captured first, is the satellite seen in the near infrared. They are followed by the red silhouette, the blue silhouette and the green silhouette, each captured with a different color filter in an instant infinitesimally different. Finally, the most clear silhouette of all, a pancromatic image of the satellite. The five satellite spectra on Google Maps Why do you look like this? It is a visual representation of two different phenomena: how quickly the objects move in the land low orbit, and how the observation satellites take their photos. They do not take a single photo, but several catches in different spectral bands (nearby infrared, red, blue, green and a pancromatic image on gray scale). Next, these images are combine with a Pansharpening algorithm To create a full color photo. Normally from the ground, which is still with respect to the satellite. However, this satellite moved almost eight kilometers per second, which caused the camera to capture it at five different points in the very brief moment in which the capture occurred. A Starlink satellite. Both Reddit users Like astrophysic Jonathan McDowell They believe it is a Spacex Starlink satellite. Unlike the first generation Starlink (which had a single solar panel), the V2 Mini have two large lateral solar panels that give them a wingspan of about 30 meters. According to McDowell, presumably is the Starlink 31147. It is not strange that the first satellite that has been found in Google Maps is a Starlink. Most satellites travel above 500 km so as not to have the atmospheric braking compensate, friction with the air that makes them end up resenting in the atmosphere. But the Starlink are launched at this point to offer a Global Low Latency Internet coverageassuming that will have to be replaced Every five years. 7,200 and up. Today there is about 7,200 Starlink satellites Orbiting the Earth (more than all the other constellations of combined satellites), thanks to Spacex’s ability to land the propellers of their rockets. That is why the investigations pointed from the beginning to Google Maps was a Starlink. Since Spacex has plans for Grow your network to a megaconstellation of 30,000 satellitesmost likely this is not the last Starlink that appears on Google Maps and other satellite photos, in the same way that it is increasingly common to see them in the night sky when we raise the view from below. Images | Google, Airbus Defense and Space In Xataka | Spacex has launched 8,000 Starlink satellites in five years, but they are not enough. And we are beginning to understand why

Now Claudia Sheinbaum threatens to sue Google for her maps

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Google Maps shows different names for the Gulf of Mexico according to the country from where the application is accessed. In Mexico, it maintains the traditional denomination, while in the United States it appears as “Gulf of America” In Spain and other places, a combination is shown: “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”. The change has not gone unnoticed. The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, He assured Thursday in a question and answers session that his government maintains a dispute with Google and that could take legal actions against the company if it does not reversed the changes implemented after Donald Trump’s decree. Sheinbaum challenges the American giant The controversy intensified on February 9, when the new president of the United States He signed a decree To “rename as ‘Gulfo de América’ the area of ​​the continental shelf of the United States ”. Then, Google Maps and Apple Maps updated their maps for users of some locations. Days before, the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico I had sent a letter to Google to avoid name changebut the answer was not expected. “They already answered the letter, and we already answered again. If necessary, we are going to a civil demand, ”said Sheinbaum, adding that the company” is not right. “ In Google Maps, US users now see “Gulf of America” ​​instead of the Gulf of Mexico “I am explaining not even President Trump is considering that the entire Gulf of Mexico is called Gulf of America but only his continental platform,” said the president. In communications with Google, as he explained, the Foreign Minister has included both Trump’s decree and reference to International standards. Sheinbaum also added that, although Google is a private company and can have agreements with different countries, its service has so much scope that it has become an international reference. It is time to wait to know if the company led by L succinity Pichai will step back and reverse the changes requested by the Mexican Executive. It is important to note that, although the decree specifies that the change of name applies only to the United States continental platform, The White House has celebrated its appearance in Apple Maps in X Without distinctions. In addition, Trump’s speech has presented the measure as a great victory, without clarifying his geographical scope. Images | The White House | Presidency of Mexico | Google Maps screen capture In Xataka | The US has decided to leave paper straws because everyone hates them. The problem is the alternative: plastic

Calling Gulf of America to the Gulf of Mexico was just an occurrence of Trump. Until Apple changed its maps

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The 1953 edition was the last one published in the volume Limits of Oceans and Seasthe text internationally accepted to name the seas and oceans of our planet. It is managed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), But the curious thing is not that. The curious thing is why more than 70 years ago it has not been edited. The reason, they explain In The Conversationwe find it in the conflict between Japan and South Korea by the name of a sea. Specifically, by the Japan seaits best known and popular name. In South Korea they do not agree to call it that, and since then they try to change the name to “Mar del Este”. South Korea took the problem that created a East Sea Society 30 years ago, but the problem never solved. The IHO came to create a revised edition of its volume in 2002, but was never published. That is the clear demonstration of how difficult it is to change the name to any geographical element in our day. At least, to change it so that it is universally accepted. And that is what is happening these days with the controversy (another) created after Donald Trump’s decision, which He issued an executive order to call Gulf of MexicoGulf of America. That decision could have gone unnoticed, but it has become something especially significant. Not for the decision itself, but because to make it a standard de facto (no of iure) has forced Google Maps —which announced the change Monday— And above all Apple Maps Change the name on their maps. And if Google and Apple maps say it, the thing changes. He does it at least for the hundreds of millions of people who use these maps, who will end up seeing how that Gulf is no longer “from Mexico”, but “of America.” The popularity of these applications is exceptional, and if something changes its name in them, users They can end up accepting it as the official name. The problem is that it is not, because it is only in the US. But both Google and Apple have already introduced that change in their applications when they are used by US citizens there, and soon we will see all. That, of course, does not mean that the rest of the world accepts that new denomination and continues to use the name that that Gulf has always had. They will not probably do so in Mexico, where they responded with a sneer to the decision of the US president. His Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sherinbaum Pardo, did At a recent conference that maybe then we should Change the name to the United States to call it Mexican America. It was then that he showed a map of 1607 in which not only the Gulf of Mexico appeared as such: it is also the region now occupied by the United States was called Mexican America. The answer is absolutely valid. Sherinbaum probably does not propose that change in Google and Apple maps for Mexicans, and even if I did, Apple and Google are North American companies and would probably not accept the change. Be that as it may, the truth is that this change of names demonstrates how today changing the name to such important geographical areas is not easy, although Have Google and Apple from your side help. The question, of course, is what will happen within four years, when Trump’s mandate ends. Will the Gulf of Mexico return to be the Gulf of Mexico? Image | Daniel Torok In Xataka | When King Carlos III commissioned a map of South America and then prohibited it because it was too precise

New update on Google Maps: Gulf of Mexico will be renamed as a Gulf of Améric

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In an ad that has generated controversy, Google Maps will begin to show The Gulf Name of America instead of Gulf of Mexico within the United States. This decision responds to an executive order signed by President Donald Trumpwhich instructed the use of this term on official maps and federal documents. In addition, Mount Denali, located in Alaska, It will also be renamed Monte McKinley On the map platform. Google explains its official name policy In a statement issued by the company, Google He explained that these changes obey their policy of reflecting the official names established in government sources. “We have received questions about the names on Google Maps. We apply changes when updated in official government sources, ”said the company. The decision to adopt Gulf of America in the US has been particularly controversial, since the Gulf of Mexico is an internationally recognized name and has a deep cultural, historical and geographical meaning. Google clarified that the new name will be visible only for users in the US, while in Mexico and other regions the term Gulf of Mexico will remain. In some areas, users can see both names. The controversy to rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America has generated a lot of controversy. (Photo: Shuttersock) The company also emphasized that this practice is not new. When official names vary between countries, Google Maps shows the corresponding local denominations. In the rest of the world, the platform presents the 2 versions of the name. “This is a long -standing practice,” said Google, stressing that change does not reflect a political position, but the fulfillment of the updates made by governments. Google clarified that the changes will not be immediate. The company will proceed with the modifications on its platform once the US authorities complete the update of its official databases. This process guarantees that the names reflect the official designations in each country, respecting local norms and denominations. The return of Mount McKinley Another significant update announced by Google is the change of the name of Mount Denali, the highest mountain in North America, which will recover its old name of Monte McKinley. This adjustment also responds to the executive order signed by Trump, who instructed federal agencies to use the name McKinley in honor of former president William McKinley. Mount Denali, officially recognized with this name in 2015 during the administration of Barack Obama, had been called Monte McKinley for more than a century. However, the change was celebrated by indigenous and local communities of Alaska, who considered that “Denali” (which means “the high” in the Koyukon language) better reflected the history and culture of the region. The decision to reverse the name to McKinley has generated divided opinions. Reactions to changes in Google Maps The ads have caused a wide range of reactions. While some sectors consider that modifications reflect sovereign decisions, others see them as unnecessary or even as an attempt to impose political narratives. Geography and diplomacy experts have indicated that these types of measures It could have implications in bilateral relations and in the international perception of the USA In Mexico, the change of the name of the Gulf of Mexico has been particularly poorly received by sectors that consider that it is a cultural and geographical appropriation. In social networks, the term Gulf of America has generated a wave of criticism and debates. On the other hand, in Alaska, the return of the name Monte McKinley has generated tensions with local communities that consider this measure a decline in the recognition of indigenous culture. Although Google has insisted that these adjustments do not represent a political position, the connection between government policy and corporate decisions is evident. Analysts point out that, following government provisions, technology companies also face the challenge of maintaining a neutral and objective image before a diverse global audience. Continue reading: * Panama alerts the UN by Trump’s threat on the channel* What are the riches of Greenland that explain Trump’s interest in the island* Sheinbaum responds to Trump and says that US should be called “Mexican America” (Tagstotranslate) Donald Trump (T) Gulf of Mexico (T) Google Maps

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