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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.
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OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?
Fucking boo.
Also, and this is weird, mine shows Lake America at one level of zoom, then changes back to Lake Ontario, and then changes to Lake America all over again at an even closer level of zoom. Everything is ridiculous and awful.
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?
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If you go to the USGS map, you see a banner that says
Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for this application are in the process of being
Presumably the sentence finishes if you aren't on mobile. Secretarial Order 3453 points you to Executive Order 14420, which is Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans. I'm starting to think we don't have the best and brightest leading the country, you guys.
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If you're bored, report missing information and say the lake is wrong and that this will cause conflicts with street signs and directions for actual locations. May as well give them a bunch of support tickets that waste some amount of resources
I’m sure after making this kind of change, they also have an automated system that redirects all related support tickets directly to the trash.
Google has been sending support requests directly to the trash for at least 20 years, nothing new here
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What a bunch of MAGA losers.
Really Bud?
If it's true, it's probably geolocked to only the US seeing it.
Guaranteed is. This is not new to Google, they have disputed territories, disputed names, they have gone through this before. This is just Americans seeing it for the first time. Google probably has an admin page that let's them set it up without ever needing an engineer anymore. If you're within this polygon you see this line, else you see the line over there. The alternative is they get sued/shut down in that country/ etc. While I have no love for Google, this is simply them picking their battles.
I remember Google doing it with the Gulf of Mexico, so they shouldn’t be too surprised it wasn’t that long ago.
this is simply them picking their battles.
name a battle they picked to fight for the benefit of the common man in the last :
- 1 month
- 3 months
- 6 months
- 1 Year
If they're picking battles, they must have done something worthwhile, right?
No, that's not what I said, I said they're picking their battles, and I didn't offer any reason or justification for why. You can do that if you choose, but I'm not going to go off and do errands to prove a point I wasn't making.
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American here, currently traveling through the (boring) state of Nebraska.
I just checked Google Maps from my Android tablet app. It shows Lake America for me:
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Its well known that Google Maps shows different names/borders depending on where the user accesses it from
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Spain here… still says Lake Ontario on mine
But I remember when the “Gulf of America” was declared, it still said Gulf of Mexico for a while, after a while it changed it to both names:
Sad state of affairs, but this is google 🤷♂️
Apple still lists the lake as Ontario on their maps, so for now it’s just Google being particularly sycophantic towards the Trump administration.
Apple well change it though, they did for the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
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Edit: It's Lake Ontario. It's always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.
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
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USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.
Just goes to show google does not play "follow the facts". It plays "follow the leader".
Humanity has a clear version of evil and has failed to deal with it. Humanity is pathetic.
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They're always coming up with new and interesting ways to show how much they suck.
That was fast
It still shows Lake Ontario for me (I'm in the US), but I may not have all the latest Android updates.
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I didn't believe you so I checked and yep, they actually fucking did it.
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