"The West Philippine Sea has always been labeled on Google Maps. We recently made this label easier to see at additional zoom levels," a Google spokesperson was quoted as saying in the media report.

Trabaho Party-list welcomed on Tuesday, April 15 Google Maps' move of increasing the label size for West Philippine Sea (WPS), which made it visible on the app sans high zoom levels. West Philippine ...

(Updated: April 16, 9:38 a.m.) “Sa wakas.” This was the sentiment shared by many Filipinos online after learning that Google Maps displays the label, West Philippine Sea, to refer to the waters west ...

Fast displaying of maps is possible thanks to GPU-accelerated vector tile rendering. It originated as an open-source fork of mapbox-gl-js, before their switch to a non-OSS license in December 2020.