Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern(www.motherjones.com)
23 pointsby cdrnsf2 hours ago7 comments
  • jayknightan hour ago
    Here is a thread about how OpenStreetMaps handled it: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-amer...

    >So far, the Lake Ontario relation (1206310) as well as at least one other nearby feature has already had its name=* changed once, though it was swiftly reverted and changed to official_name:en-US=* instead, which is the current status quo as of this writing.

  • anigbrowlan hour ago
    After he's gone we're going to see endless blog posts of the form 'Standing up to those guys inside company X' from execs trying to rehab themselves for rushing to comply with every stupid directive to come out of the White House.
  • 131hnan hour ago
    This will still work (it’s just funny)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/vd5j87...

  • tingletechan hour ago
    I wish there were a toggle on google maps to show the internationally accepted names for these bodies of water.
    • tekla40 minutes ago
      There won't be because such a thing does not exist. I do not understand why people think that anyone controls what a body of water is called by individual countries.
      • Marsymars31 minutes ago
        Yeah, but in the same vein, a) countries are just a collection of people and b) Google's a private company, they can put whatever labels they want on their maps.

        If the US admin decided to officially rename every road in the country to "America Street" and every lake in the world to "Lake America", everyone, including Google, would ignore that.

  • ChrisArchitect27 minutes ago
    Related:

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

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495947

  • pvaldes34 minutes ago
    Can't wait for the Canadians trolling back by declaring that they will rename Florida to "Punkeydoodles two" in each official map printed in Canada.
  • gippan hour ago
    As dumb as the renaming is to begin with, it feels like making this your hill to die on would also be pretty dumb, no? It's fairly inconsequential in the end.
    • beholean hour ago
      Who’s dying on this hill? This “just let this go cause it’s inconsequential” attitude is exactly the attrition that emboldens and underpins the current shift towards facsism. Death of a thousand cuts.
      • throwthrowuknow38 minutes ago
        If you’re going to use the F word you are required to provide the definition you’re using.

        It’s been so overused at this point that it’s just a meaningless sound that can refer to anything someone opposes so I honestly don’t know what you mean.

    • pennomi14 minutes ago
      Opposing imperialistic rhetoric is a dumb hill to die on? If a person does not oppose fascist language, I have no faith that they will oppose fascist actions.
    • wat1000020 minutes ago
      If it’s inconsequential then why not ignore it and stick with the real name?