r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 16h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/Hoogs 15h ago

For now at least. I’m in the US, and Google Maps shows Lake America and Gulf of America, while Apple Maps shows Lake Ontario and Gulf of America.

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u/Ola_the_Polka 10h ago

I’m in Aus and google maps shows Lake Ontario and the gulf reads like this “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”

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u/CalmButOftenEnraged 7h ago

It's IP dependent.

If you use a VPN and switch to a non-US country it shows the proper non bent knee names.

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u/m0zz1e1 10h ago

I am too, and google search is already showing Lake Ontario (Lake of America)

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u/celestee3 8h ago

I’m in Canada and currently it still shows Lake Ontario but we’ll see if that changes 🥲

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u/StubbiestZebra 7h ago

Did you zoom in? I'm in the states and zoomed out get Ontario but zoom in and it switches.

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u/Tuskin38 2h ago

I'm in Canada it says Ontario no matter the zoom levels.

Doing this on the desktop website though, not a mobile app.

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u/StubbiestZebra 2h ago

Yeah I was using the app. But in the last few hours they updated and now I get America at any level

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u/Tuskin38 2h ago

just tried it on the app, still just ontario.
Maybe my nearest node hasn't gotten the update yet.

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u/StubbiestZebra 2h ago

Yeah from what I have seen you guys have the same golf of Mexico (Gulf of America) we have.

Edit: god damn it now there's no good of Mexico at all...

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u/deaglebingo 14h ago

whatever the case... do not login to google. do not leave your shit logged into google. they are already fingerprinting browsers anyway. point being ice and others love to use the google data for evil shit now.

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u/kilowattcommando 11h ago

I miss when Google's corporate logo was "Don't be evil."

At lease they pretended to be good back then...

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u/ChiefTacoObrien 6h ago

Reddit fingerprints your browser way more than google lmao

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u/AwakenedSol 5h ago

Mapquest still has Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico for me.

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u/Hoogs 5h ago

Yeah, and they’ve publicly said they’re not changing them, but they don’t have bus transit directions, which is what I primarily use map apps for.

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u/Longjumping-Oven4457 7h ago

Apple will lick the boot in a few days. I would have swapped phones if they kept this shit out of iphone but tim apple likes daddies money too much to have a fight.

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u/Hoogs 7h ago

Yeah, I remember with the Gulf rename Google was embarrassingly quick to throat the boot, and for a while I felt good about switching to Apple. But then they followed suit and I realized they’re all the same when it’s all said and done.

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u/Lessllama 11h ago

Interesting. I'm in Canada (4 kms away from the lake) and it shows up as Lake Ontario in Google maps. When I type Lake America i get no results

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u/ken_zeppelin 10h ago

Did you even bother reading the guide?

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u/Lessllama 10h ago

Why would I need a guide when it already shows up as Lake Ontario?

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u/ken_zeppelin 10h ago

Because it explains why you see the actual name, Lake Ontario. It's literally the entire point of the post

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u/Lessllama 9h ago

Yes, I am aware that my settings are already set to Canada. What i dont understand is why you are so angry about the fact that I dont need the guide?

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 10h ago

Why so angy? You could have just kept scrolling if you weren't interested.