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MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation in the Apple App Store, after refusing to rename Lake Ontario (www.businesswire.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1371422/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario

Source: MapQuest on Bluesky

MapQuest also released an online tool that lets you jokingly rename Lake Ontario to whatever you want it to be, then share the results on social media.

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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why is the name changing? The article didn't even say why

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump issued an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America the other day. Google Maps pulls its name data from the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), and so once GNIS updated to follow the executive order, that change flowed down to Google Maps. It's pretty much the same thing that happened with the Gulf of Mexico/ Gulf of America thing last year.

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