Except it shows up as Lake Americas in my google maps and I’m in Europe…
Mine has it in brackets. They can honestly fuck off with that.
Like I specifically searched lake Ontario.
Edit: if I go out of search there’s no mention of the wrong name however.
it would be funny if Canadians started referring to South Canada instead of America
ew
Fuck you google
Osmand ❤️
For android users recommend CoMaps, or “OSMand”, both are open source and privacy focused. Both use openstreetmaps data, CoMaps just have what I think is a cleaner interface. Both have offline maps, turn-by-turn navigation and frankly a lot more customization since it’s not corporate owned. No ads, and no businesses who pay being stuffed in your eyes first when maps load.
Both are much improved since trying to ditch maps a few years ago and basic local business info wasn’t available, now it looks to be much improved and it’s a great time to jump.
Hope this helps someone.
I thought Google’s policy was that they deferred to the international cartographic societies decision on place names, i.e leave it alone, but apparently they’ll just give in to an international skid mark when the opportunity presents itself.
I just assumed they followed the nomenclature of whatever country they operate in.
Edit: Ah, I get it. This change is just change within the US’s Executive Branch and therefore Google doesn’t need to follow it at all. They’re just sucking MAGA penis.
Maybe before they needed to lick Trump’s taint. They would rather get on his good side than be “regulated” to death.
I hope they dont choke on maga’s dick
Makes sense as they once championed “alternative facts”. May as well live in an alternative reality.
Cringe
Watching these corporate collaborators fall all over themselves to enact the profoundly stupid and short-sighted whims of a sodden, rotting corpse when they could just…not do that…has been one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
The sad thing is, thanks to their capture of both parties, I have no conceit they’ll actually experience any consequences for it. We have handed power to some of the least-deserving ghouls the Wharton School of Business ever squeezed out.
I’m not even sure it’s collaboration for the dumb shit like this. It’s just not worth spending millions of dollars litigating over something that doesn’t actually fucking matter. Not litigating the name change itself, but whatever bullshit Trump decides to do for his temper tantrum for being ignored.
It will just be changed back eventually.
Hi, I work in the map industry. We generally don’t get to decide what names to use for features. We apply what the local official name is (to simplify). That’s why if you’re in country A, feature X might be named something different than if you’re in country B. You can imagine this would (and has) caused many conflicts around the world if we didn’t display the local official name. (Switch your region via VPN and you can see this in action)
If Google renamed it to Gulf of America, no Google didn’t, not really … They just inserted the new official name for that feature according to GNIS.
The Google Maps change does only seems to be visible for people with US IPs. But I assume that Apple Maps, Mapquest, Mapbox, Bing (TIL Bing has a map feature), etc all use GNIS to label features too, right? None of them have changed the name yet. Seems unlikely that all of them would still be out-of-sync with upstream, and let Google drink their milkshake like this.
According to this Wired article:
In fact, the map for the federal government’s Geographic Names Information System database, which informs these changes, still showed Lake Ontario as of Sunday morning, with a note that the maps are “in the process of being updated to reflect this name change.”
Sure looks to me like Google made the change before the basemaps were updated. It’s now 23:40 EDT Sunday, and GNIS still says Lake Ontario…so yeah, I think this is on them. Dear Leader told them to jump, and they rushed to show him how high they could get.
Except it’s not official. An executive order means the executive branch has to use that name. Nobody else does.
It is official in the eyes of the US Government. I’m simply explaining why some/most map companies will include the change.
So switch it back, all Nazis must (redacted)
i think that’s a bit of a rash reaction to changing the name of a lake locally
We… Voted for this?!? Whoops.
My disdain for the US and Americans finds new heights daily
Sorry
Welp, how is MapQuest these days?
Edit: Actually, looks pretty good. I didn’t know why OpenStreetMap can’t autocomplete an address to save its life, but MapQuest does fine. Also, Yelp review integration and I didn’t see obviously sponsored chains.
No public transit directions apparently? Which would be a problem if it weren’t always faster to bike than take transit in Boston.
Waze is Still correct with Ontario
Waze is owned by Google
Won’t be for long, it’s owned by Google.
Canadians: what’s google?
I mean, I’m finalizing that data I need to preserve before I delete my google accounts completely, but it is imminent
At least none of these tech and finance bros and their companies who can’t seem to have enough of gagging on fascist dick can ever pretend to have the slightest interest in not being the biggest scum they can.
This is so unanimous to all of them next time one of those barely sentient piles off shit escapes from the likes of stanford to make a company with a slogan of “don’t be evil” or whatever not even a brain dead oyster can pretend not to know they’re waiting for the first nazi boot they find to start licking.
