The McKinley Years

Re:The McKinley Years by ChrisArchitect on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:18PM (#43008221)

Just searched Google Maps for Mt. Denali, Alaska only for it to return results for Mount McKinley immediately. Note I'm not really sure if that's anything to do with an executive order or that it was Alaskans wanting it called Denali while many elsewhere in the country incl at the Federal level called it McKinley.

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007052

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Re:The McKinley Years by potato3732842 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:48AM (#43035334)

Punching in Burma gets me Myanmar and Czechoslovakia gets me the Czech Republic. I assume google maps silently redirects you if you use an unofficial or former name so long as it's parsable without significant ambiguity.

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Re:The McKinley Years by tacitusarc on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:00AM (#43037244)

The change back to Mt McKinley may be the stupidest executive order (not the most harmful). McKinley never even visited the mountain, it was named after him by some people trying to ingratiate themselves with the President.

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