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[–] 64 points 2 months ago

OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Google couldn't wait to roll it out.... Fuck those fascist ego strokers.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Not even a bit of pushback. Dead silence from a them, just straight up compliance.

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  • [–] 116 points 2 months ago*
    [–] 80 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of people sent edits through to google over the Gulf of Mexico 'change'. I believe they eventually removed the ability to edit it? (I no longer use google and it was a while ago now)

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

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Presumably the sentence finishes if you aren’t on mobile

    That is both funny and correct, the full sentence is:

    Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for this application are in the process of being updated to reflect this name change.

    :P

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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

    Google has been sending support requests directly to the trash for at least 20 years, nothing new here

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It seems like the majority of Google products and features are built to support someone's promotion effort. Once they are promoted or if they quit the company, no one else is around to support it and the product is eventually canceled. Thats why the list here is so long: https://killedbygoogle.com/. And good luck even getting through to a real person for support. Its bots all the way down.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    What a bunch of MAGA losers.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not for me. Using a Canadian VPN.

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

    Apple still lists the lake as Ontario on their maps, so for now it’s just Google being particularly sycophantic towards the Trump administration.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Smallest of the 5 great lakes 😂

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

    I still have Ontario on desktop and the wifes android down here

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    My screenshots are taken while not logged into google, opening google maps n a browser, and typing in 'lake ontario'. not being logged in might make a difference for some reason? the nz one is via a vpn (which is definitely working)

    How about for the other one? (shows the same for aus and nz for me)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Something like this happened in the recent past and now Mexicans are starting to call it the Rio Grande instead of the Rio Bravo

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It is labeling them properly though? In the US it's called Lake America which is now the official American name for it. In the rest of the world it's named Lake Ontario.

    Thing is, it's not unusual for bodies of water to have different names depending on where you're from. What we call Läänemeri (Western Sea), the Germans call Ostsee (Eastern Sea). You likely know it as the Baltic Sea.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    But it's not called that, and it's not the official name.

    Naming shit isn't a presidential power. His declaration has no more weight than if he announced that from now on your legal name was Vicky.

    It's silly and stupid, but also genuinely dangerous when groups with as much power as Google has declare that they're willing to let a madman dictate how they describe reality.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Other search engines exist

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Lets be real though, nobody comes close on the quality of Google Maps. Everyone needs to contribute to OSM.

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

    At least in my experience, OpenStreetMap has far, far superior depictions of hiking trails. Edge case I know, but still, it demonstrates that Google maps does not actually reign fully supreme and can be bested.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Haven't used google maps in years. OpenStreetMap rules. It may not have all the POIs but it does just fine for navigation and stuff, and I can find addresses of businesses the old fashioned way, using their website.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Just goes to show google does not play "follow the facts". It plays "follow the leader".

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    That was fast

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

    It still shows Lake Ontario for me (I'm in the US), but I may not have all the latest Android updates.

    Lake Ontario on Google Maps

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It doesn't depends on a update but as the official name of it in the country you are located. Gulf of Mexico is still Gulf of Mexico everywhere but the US. Lake Ontario is going to keep being Lake Ontario everywhere but the US.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It would be hilarious if it showed as Lake Ontario for Canadians and only Lake America for USAians.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That is how it has always worked. Most of the rest of the world sees Gulf of Mexico and will see Lake Ontario.

    There are a lot more disputed and conflicting geographical names than these two. Google has a system in place that aligns naming by country.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    They're always coming up with new and interesting ways to show how much they suck.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    I didn't believe you so I checked and yep, they actually fucking did it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    google maps Australia

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Incredible that anyone wants to work for such Pscho corporations. They must be incredibly ignorant outside their job-function - I hope..

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Google has always shown the local official name for everything. Borders and names can vary a lot depending on where you are from. I still see lake Ontario since I'm not from the US.

    Lake Ontario

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Well good, about time they put warnings on maps. Above is the lake, below is america. You have been warned.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Tis normal in Denmark still

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago*

    Edit: It's Lake Ontario. It's always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    What's interesting is I'm in Canada and it shows both the America waterways. It's only a trump idiot decree and not the rest of the worlds. Fail googly

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    They need to keep Daddy Orange happy to keep the administration friendly to their corporate excesses.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Apple Maps hasn’t fallen to the Mad King’s whims yet but I assume they will, as they did with the Gulf of Mexico. I’m hoping Apple’s new CEO has more of a spine than Tim Cuck. I mean Cook. (Aka “Tim Apple”)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, fuck Google for so many reasons. I'm so sick of their shit. They sensor YouTube comments, too.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I feel that the foldable, paper maps will be making a big comeback in the near future.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Lake Ontario in Australia

    Sorry, can't find where to upload an image in Summit

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

    Yeah, Google has done this for at least 15 years.

    If you view the Ukrainian border in Russia, it's different than if you view it in a NATO country

    Same for the border between India and China depending on which side you're on

    Same for the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America

    If you view this in the US, it's America, if you view it in Canada it's Ontario.

    They change the map to match whatever the country you're viewing from says it is

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I am in the long process of DeGoogling. When I saw this post I set my VPN location to Canada.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Nothing changed from my side, still lake Ontario.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Google is hilarious, I can't think of a company that tries to drive me to violent terrorism on a more frequent basis

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