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Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by sixtyj »

c0nducktr wrote: post #5

I had been waiting to see when Google and Apple maps will make this change. I believe both now do this "Gulf of Mexico -> America" rename, however I found that Comaps (which I learned about from someone on HN, shoutout to whoever that was) never did. I'm not sure how they decide on names, but it seems better than leaving it up to whatever the POTUS feels like at the moment. If Trump renamed the state of NY to New Tru…

In Google Maps app (non-American version) it is already visible as “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”. Also Mapy.com has dual names.

Canadian-American border cuts the lake so dual name is obvious as Canada doesn’t have any intention to rename it.

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) is the same situation. USA is the only country who changed the name so…

The other situation could be with cities or counties that are inside US territory.

Or take an example with Dept of War. Nobody abroad isn’t using Dept of Defense in their texts of anymore… (Btw Dept of War was since 1789 til 1949 then renamed to Dept of Defense.)

Different situation is with X. As the X is confusing for a lot of people, Twitter is added after slash to explain the situation (X/Twitter).

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by xerp2914 »

sidibe wrote: post #9

This is pathetic and embarrassing by Google. They're going to hide behind some corporate policy if criticized, but it's so cowardly, there wouldn't have been any consequences for ignoring it

Not surprising after their fawning at the inauguration. Google loves the toddler in chief.

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

It should be Lake America (Lake Ontario) in America and Lake Ontario elsewhere.

Blindly relying on GNIS is silly, particularly when that dependency is forced on users.

(Also, what fucking law exempts GNIS edits from the APA? Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings?)

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by roosterIllusi0n »

Google needs to be broken up. The next democratic president will have to break them up into pieces. Future presidents will get to use trump's new powers of doing whatever he wants. With google, there is more than enough bad behavior to legally break them up that will survive the courts.

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by roosterIllusi0n »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14

It should be Lake America (Lake Ontario) in America and Lake Ontario elsewhere. Blindly relying on GNIS is silly, particularly when that dependency is forced on users. (Also, what fucking law exempts GNIS edits from the APA? Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings?)

Google doesn't think anyone is going to break them up. The only solution is to break them up when republicans lose power.

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by roosterIllusi0n »

petre wrote: post #6

There's a similar issue with the Sea of Japan/East Sea. The problem is that Trump is creating these new issues by renaming bodies of water.

That is not the same thing at all. That is an actual historical debate. Yes, the sea of japan is technically wrong, but the ones asking for east sea are the ones who also said they would compromise if both names were used. We can prove east sea predates sea of japan.

Don't equate real things with fake issues trump pretends are real. Lake of america is political propaganda. It's not real.

Re: Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

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Post by petre »

roosterIllusi0n wrote: post #18
petre wrote: post #6

There's a similar issue with the Sea of Japan/East Sea. The problem is that Trump is creating these new issues by renaming bodies of water.

That is not the same thing at all. That is an actual historical debate. Yes, the sea of japan is technically wrong, but the ones asking for east sea are the ones who also said they would compromise if both names were used. We can prove east sea predates sea of japan. Don't equate real things with fake issues trump pretends are real. Lake of america is political propaganda. It's not real.

I agree. it's also totally dumb to have serveral bodies of water named of 'merica.
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