not yet for meJust use some OSM provider or Mapy.com. Both are great options.
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Just because a boot liker calls something by a name, does not make it so, if anything, when you hear someone say “THe guLf of aMericA” you know on the spot, you don’t loose anything by stopping the conversation right there and then.
Something like this happened in the recent past and now Mexicans are starting to call it the Rio Grande instead of the Rio Bravo
Its no longer wild or grand.
Google couldn’t wait to roll it out… Fuck those fascist ego strokers.
Not even a bit of pushback. Dead silence from a them, just straight up compliance.
It’s almost as if Alphabet/Google and the tyrant oligarchs are one and the same. That would be preposterous, though, right?
Why would they push back? there is nothing in it for them, and their shareholders
Google is hilarious, I can’t think of a company that tries to drive me to violent terrorism on a more frequent basis
Edit: It’s Lake Ontario. It’s always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.
USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.
They need to keep Daddy Orange happy to keep the administration friendly to their corporate excesses.
If google maps is unable to properly label the names of cities, lakes, etc, then it shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Block google maps in Canada, problem solved
It is labeling them properly though? In the US it’s called Lake America which is now the official American name for it. In the rest of the world it’s named Lake Ontario.
Thing is, it’s not unusual for bodies of water to have different names depending on where you’re from. What we call Läänemeri (Western Sea), the Germans call Ostsee (Eastern Sea). You likely know it as the Baltic Sea.
But it’s not called that, and it’s not the official name.
Naming shit isn’t a presidential power. His declaration has no more weight than if he announced that from now on your legal name was Vicky.
It’s silly and stupid, but also genuinely dangerous when groups with as much power as Google has declare that they’re willing to let a madman dictate how they describe reality.
block google everywhere out of the usa
OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?
So many cowards
Lake Ontario in Australia
Sorry, can’t find where to upload an image in Summit
Yeah, Google has done this for at least 15 years.
If you view the Ukrainian border in Russia, it’s different than if you view it in a NATO country
Same for the border between India and China depending on which side you’re on
Same for the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America
If you view this in the US, it’s America, if you view it in Canada it’s Ontario.
They change the map to match whatever the country you’re viewing from says it is
State-affirming propaganda. Got it.
Australia?
Everyone should just report the error to Google over and over and over again. Remind them that the federal government doesn’t actually have unilateral authority to rename major international geographic features on the whim of a single deranged despot.
Just did it.
A lot of people sent edits through to google over the Gulf of Mexico ‘change’. I believe they eventually removed the ability to edit it? (I no longer use google and it was a while ago now)
Apple Maps still lets you report the Gulf of Mexico, I did the other night when this first happened. They haven’t changed Lake Ontario yet at least though.
It still shows Lake Ontario for me, but I may not have all the latest Android updates.
It doesn’t depends on a update but as the official name of it in the country you are located. Gulf of Mexico is still Gulf of Mexico everywhere but the US. Lake Ontario is going to keep being Lake Ontario everywhere but the US.
google maps, from australia
A lot of time without checking out, but is the same in Brazil
This is what I see, too. I’m in South America with my location turned off and a VPN running on my device with a US IP address.
It would be hilarious if it showed as Lake Ontario for Canadians and only Lake America for USAians.
That is how it has always worked. Most of the rest of the world sees Gulf of Mexico and will see Lake Ontario.
There are a lot more disputed and conflicting geographical names than these two. Google has a system in place that aligns naming by country.
I’m in Denmark and Google maps has Gulf of America in parenthesis. Lake Ontario is still just Lake Ontario, though.
google maps, australia
In Canada, they put
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
Pretty sure that’s what it is, no sarcasm
Alright then, hilariousness confirmed! 🤣
