[governance] And yet Google again: Online petition against

[Max Senges]

Hi everybody

I checked and found this official blogpost

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html

best
max


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Max Senges
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> 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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