Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps(blog.google)
37 pointsby lr05 hours ago11 comments
  • rpeden2 hours ago
    This gave me the shove I needed to cancel some longstanding Google subscriptions.

    So...thanks, Google, I guess?

  • sans_souse4 hours ago
    Hey Google. Don't you read these comments? Let's have a serious discussion.
  • roosterIllusi0nan hour ago
    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.
  • c0nducktr5 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.

    • sixtyj4 hours 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).

  • JumpCrisscross3 hours 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.

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

    • roosterIllusi0n43 minutes ago
      Google doesn't think anyone is going to break them up. The only solution is to break them up when republicans lose power.
  • ChrisArchitect4 hours ago
    Title is: How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
  • westurner5 hours ago
    How do we charge the people that caused all of these expenses for the US?
    • fuzzfactor5 hours ago
      Charging and convicting of felonies didn't seem to fix it.
    • westurner4 hours 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.

  • rtrann5 hours ago
    The enablement of this man by america is unreal.
  • sidibe4 hours 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
    • xerp29144 hours ago
      Not surprising after their fawning at the inauguration. Google loves the toddler in chief.
  • petre5 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.
    • roosterIllusi0n33 minutes ago
      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.

  • anigbrowl5 hours ago
    Craven.