The Mexican government has filed a lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in Maps within the United ... in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS ...

Alfredo Estrella/AFP Google has said the changes align with its policy of following official United States government geographic designations through the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

His order directs the Secretary of Interior to “take all appropriate actions” to rename the Gulf, including updating the Geographic Names Information System to ... though in this particular case, the ...

It has come to our attention that much of the United States of America ... We began our search for clues in the Geographic Names Information System, a mother lode of almost 2.3 million officially ...

The change is in the process of being officially enforced within the United States. The US Board on Geographic Names, which is responsible for approving official geographic names, has been directed to ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has protested Google’s decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico as Trump has unilaterally decreed. Both Mexico and Cuba also have rights to large ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. Mount Denali in Alaska is also getting a name change.