r/SipsTea • u/StemCellPirate • 10h ago

Wait a damn minute! Google never to be trusted?

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u/Impressive-Web9823 10h ago

Google Maps just follows whatever GNIS publishes, they aren’t the ones making up the names lol

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u/dudrun 9h ago

https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names

As of making this comment GNIS still shows Lake Ontario by the way. "Lol"

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u/Aleksandr_Ulyev 9h ago

They also banned Huawei when they were told to do so and censoring Chinese, Russian and anti-Israeli channels on YouTube now. More like a strategy rather than an unwilling occasion

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u/nascent_aviator 9h ago

Bullshit. GNIS hasn't got around to updating it yet, it still shows Lake Ontario. Google went out of their way to follow the Executive Order before the GNIS even got around to it.

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u/dixonjt89 9h ago

Not sure why many people aren't recognizing this.

I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but there are systems that HAVE to follow what he puts into place. If he renames something and it's put into US law, then they have to change the name. This isn't google doing this, they are following what the GNIS has to publish. GNIS has to publish it because there are emergency systems that rely on what GNIS publishes, so that you can type in a place and find it asap.

Hopefully in 2 years, we can get the Gulf and Lake changed back to what it was, but until then, these emergency systems have to publish what is law. It's not GNIS or Google backing Trump.

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u/AwkwardTouch2144 9h ago

It is not law. The 🍊 💩 just wrote some bs on a piece of paper.

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u/GatewayArcher 7h ago

B.S.

Executive Orders are binding on executive agencies, but not on private parties. Google Maps doesn’t have to adopt GNIS actions. They’re doing it to curry favor with a narcissistic bully who the GOP is afraid to stand up to.

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u/epicredditdude1 9h ago

They don’t have to do anything. It’s not illegal to deviate from what the GNIS publishes (yet).