Nathan Grigg

There are more important things going on in the world than map controversies, but the historical role of the U.S. government is not to dictate place names, but to create the database in order to facilitate commerce, uniformity, etc. Does the database maintainer have some amount of power over naming? Yes, but if the databases hadn’t existed and been reliable over the last 20 years, tech companies would have just made their own from scratch. If the official government sources become propaganda, you should stop depending on them.