Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...

The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...

after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change the name within the federal government. Google Maps users in Mexico still see ...

Google no longer lets users leave reviews for the Gulf of America after the company updated its maps to comply with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. The Gulf of ...

Google Maps announced Monday it had updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.

The Geographic Names Information System database changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this week. It came after President Donald Trump's executive order on his ...

Sarasota, United States - January 28, 2025 In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” People using Maps in ...

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.

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name late Sunday. Microsoft has also made the name change on its Bing maps. The Associated Press, which provides news around the ...