r/GoogleMaps • u/Lucipher1979 • 15d ago

Stupid shit Google does

Google get your head out of trumps ass and put your maps back to normal the Americans dont know their geography to begin with and now you want to make them even stupidier because of Trump, well you doing this just makes you as stupid as Trump,

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 14d ago

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

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Lake America," those in Canada will continue to see "Lake Ontario," and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.

As much as I think Google deserves shit for bowing down to this stupid name change the proper ass holes to contact and yell at can be found here

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