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

JumpCrisscross•14 minutes ago

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.

sans_souse•44 minutes ago

Hey Google. Don't you read these comments? Let's have a serious discussion.

c0nducktr•about 2 hours ago

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 Trumpland, would Google and Apple go along with it? Seems like they would. It's just embarrassing.

sixtyj•about 1 hour ago

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).

westurner•about 2 hours ago

How do we charge the people that caused all of these expenses for the US?

westurner•about 1 hour ago

You had a trade spat and just totally rocked each other up on the boards and so now everyone else must waste money on new maps with a new name for an old geological feature that will now be another symbol of you weakly sabotaging my f country?

Remember how this guy couldn't get a loan in 2016? How he was hundreds of RICO millions in debt to foreign banks and couldn't get a loan? Now we all need to waste money for their gold-plated vanity needs.

fuzzfactor•about 1 hour ago

Charging and convicting of felonies didn't seem to fix it.

ChrisArchitect•about 1 hour ago

Title is: How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

rtrann•about 2 hours ago

The enablement of this man by america is unreal.

sidibe•about 1 hour ago

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

xerp2914•about 1 hour ago

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

anigbrowl•about 2 hours ago

Craven.

petre•about 2 hours ago

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.

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

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