OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?

OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?

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.

Google couldn't wait to roll it out.... Fuck those fascist ego strokers.
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.
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)
They almost instantly removed the ability to report inaccuracies right when Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. They are all cowards.
Apple Maps still lets you report the Gulf of Mexico, I did the other night when this first happened. They haven’t changed Lake Ontario yet at least though.
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.
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
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
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.
Google has been sending support requests directly to the trash for at least 20 years, nothing new here
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.
Google would have learned from when they did this with The Gulf of Mexico and people submitted corrections/edits
Still Ontario from Canada


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

Smallest of the 5 great lakes 😂
Why would it be changed for New Zealand?
Edit - Ah wait, that's a point of interest and not the map label.
I still have Ontario on desktop and the wifes android down here
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)

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.
Something like this happened in the recent past and now Mexicans are starting to call it the Rio Grande instead of the Rio Bravo
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
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.
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.
Yes but no
This is just a case of a basket case narcissist traitor with psychopathic tendencies trying to flex his blubbery muscles
Other search engines exist
Lets be real though, nobody comes close on the quality of Google Maps. Everyone needs to contribute to OSM.
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.
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.
Just about every map works fine these days. Google tends to route the inefficient routes once you learn your city. Ignoring it tends to be faster, then at that point, you don't "need" map apps at all.
Just goes to show google does not play "follow the facts". It plays "follow the leader".
USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.
It still shows Lake Ontario for me (I'm in the US), but I may not have all the latest Android updates.

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.

google maps, from australia
It would be hilarious if it showed as Lake Ontario for Canadians and only Lake America for USAians.
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.
Pretty sure that's what it is, no sarcasm
They're always coming up with new and interesting ways to show how much they suck.
Incredible that anyone wants to work for such Pscho corporations. They must be incredibly ignorant outside their job-function - I hope..
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.

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

Tis normal in Denmark still
They chickened out for the Gulf of Mexico, taking the coward's middle road.

(As seen from Sweden)
Yet but what the fuck
is this shit

Edit: It's Lake Ontario. It's always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.
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
They need to keep Daddy Orange happy to keep the administration friendly to their corporate excesses.
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”)

Yeah, fuck Google for so many reasons. I'm so sick of their shit. They sensor YouTube comments, too.
I feel that the foldable, paper maps will be making a big comeback in the near future.
Lake Ontario in Australia
Sorry, can't find where to upload an image in Summit
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
Still normal in the UK
I am in the long process of DeGoogling. When I saw this post I set my VPN location to Canada.
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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