[governance] And yet Google again: Online petition against GoogleMaps

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Yes... but I just checked, and, first, the UN says it continues to be
officially "Persian Gulf", and if you search Google Earth for both
"Persian Gulf" and "Arabian Gulf", you get to the same general place --
the Gulf. Why the fuzz, really?

--c.a.

Teresa Nacli-Napoli wrote:
> Just a smart way to change history, they are doing this for years with
> no complains. How about the Golan Heights that belongs to Syria and they
> show as Israeli land?
>  They should say OCCUPATION and Israel is not  complying with
>  UN resolution 242 since 1967 .
> ?????
> 
> --- On *Sat, 1/23/10, Carlos A. Afonso /<ca at cafonso.ca>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>
>     Subject: Re: [governance] And yet Google again: Online petition
>     against GoogleMaps
>     To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Rui Correia" <correia.rui at gmail.com>
>     Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 5:55 AM
> 
>     Strange... for us here in BR it had always been the Persian Gulf, and
>     continues to be so. How did this change happen?
> 
>     --c.a.
> 
>     Rui Correia wrote:
>     > One thing is for sure: good or bad, Google is getting more than
>     its fair
>     > share of publicity!
>     >
>     > We, the undersigned, through this letter, protest your irresponsible,
>     > unscientific actions, and demand an immediate and unconditional
>     deletion
>     > of “Arabian Gulf” from Google Earth.
>     >
>     > Arbitrarily designating the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf is an
>     > irresponsible violation of all historical and International standards
>     > and would undermine the integrity of Google Earth.
>     >
>     > 1.197.422 signatures
>     >
>     > http://www.petitiononline.com/sos02082/petition.html
>     > http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?sos02082
>     >
>     > You can read about the naming dispute here:
>     > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Rui
>     >
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