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Trump Suggests Renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean Next After Changing Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico on U.S. Maps (people.com)

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

He should totally do it.

At that point, it'll become clear that maps that hold to the new US standard are going to a) have to be constantly changed, and b) will become increasingly useless.

Then everyone who actually cares about geography can just commit to buying maps that adhere to different standards. I'd say Canadian map standards or European map standards but I bet there are plenty of academic map standards still in the US that refuse to engage in Trump's whimsy, no matter how official it might be.