Trumps’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps.
Google Maps has changed the name of “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake, according to a Google statement.
Trump announced on Thursday that he was changing the name of the smallest of the five Great Lakes, part of an escalating trade feud with Canada that has prompted the two countries to impose reciprocal tariffs on billions of dollars in goods.
The president’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps. It does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the world refers to the lake.
Whatever… what about the epstein files?
They’re now renamed to America files.
I gave mapquest a chance because of this. I loved the UI but Sadly they had the restaurant I wanted to go to marked on the wrong building. Fuck google. To all the laid off Google map devs please use your skills to help make an alternative.
Sadly, making accurate maps isn’t about skills so much as access to lots of high-accuracy data. The reason Google maps are so good is because they’re constantly pulling in fresh data from phone telemetry.
Fuck google forever.
So uhh, can we rename the country to ‘pedophile states of America’ for Canadian users then?
They should label it “Lake America” (with the quotes) below the border line, and Lake Ontario (without any quotes, and maybe in a bigger font) above it.
That’s pretty much what they are doing
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change/
I’ve seen that. It is close, but I think putting those names in separate places would be better, and of course this solution should be the version either for all, Americans, Canadians, and worldwide, or the version only for Americans, as, honestly, nobody else cares for the shit Trump is doing there except laughing.
I wonder what it feels like to wield enough power to force a 4.22 trillion dollar company to bend the knee?
Keep sucking that orange shriveled pecker, Pichai. We see you.
Makes you really wonder exactly how many Alphabet, Inc. executives are in the files.
Makes me assume every last one is.
It’s important to remember that Google was not required in any shape or form to make this change. They simply decided that they’d prefer to continue sucking Trump’s mushroom cock and make the change.
Stop using Google products. Also, remember this, if the fascists ever lose power. Remember that they were happy and excited to jump in bed with the fascist pedophiles, because they’ll likely try to bury their actions during this administration and try to appeal to whoever is in power afterwards.
Really? I was under the impression that Trump had made it a law or something. If not, then what did that executive order actually do?
Executive orders only apply to the executive branch of the federal government, which is why they’re called executive orders. They don’t (or rather, are not supposed to) apply to anything else, including citizens and private companies.
The US tech giants are the IG Farben and Krupp of MAGA.
That reference is a little too “inside baseball” for me, but based on the context, I assume those were companies that operated in the so-called Third Reich?
And massively profited from it, yes. And still exist today in one way or another.
Fucking cowards.
nah, sergei brin and the other one whom i can’t remember MUST make another billion dollars. How do you expect them to do that if they piss off the orange toddler?
Canada should announce that they’ve changed the names of all the Great Lakes to Canadian names, like Lake Toronto, and Lake Ottawa. Make sure there’s a Lake Saskatchewan, because there is no way Trump can read or pronounce it, so that will really piss him off. Maybe he’ll painfully stroke out and croak, and we can all read about it the Big Beautiful Obituary.
I’ve signed a presidential order to rename Mar-a-lago to Turd-o-lardo Google has six days to comply.
Good boy Google, wuf.
Yet another reason to switch to OSMAnd (OpenStreetMaps).
OpenStreetMap still showing Lake Ontario.
Maybe it’s time to get rid of all my google apps.
you mean it wasn’t before?
I thought I was being paranoid dropping Google like a hot dog turd around 2018, but everything they’ve done since then has made me glad I’m no customer of theirs for the most part.
Yup. I was a massive Google fan. I dropped them over a decade ago.
I’m glad I stopped buying their phones. It’s very easy not to since I like emulation and they don’t use Snapdragon SoCs anymore lol
How did we elect an octegenarian toddler to the president’s office?
*again
Decades of unchecked racism.
Don’t forget gutting the public education system (a process that was made easier by leveraging unchecked racism).
I’m sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.
Not that I was taking any risk predicting that.
Use Openstreetmap! (edit: any OSM-based app/site).
Also recommend CoMaps; like OSM it’s open source and privacy focused, no ads, very customizable. I prefer the cleaner interface of CoMaps but anything is better than Google.
It, too, uses OSM.
Practically any non-Google map app does.
Nice work. And thanks for the tip!
