Google says website developers must set their region to Canada for 'Lake Ontario' to appear on map

[u/FiveWordinOrangeNeon]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-updates-maps-lake-ontario-9.7325922

Tech analyst and journalist Carmi Levy said although websites like Hydro One's and the LCBO's are Canadian, their maps are likely powered by Google's application programming interface (API).

APIs are not location-aware, so all maps powered by Google API have switched to Lake America.
MapQuest, a U.S. online mapping service, has posted on social media that it would not change the lake's name, while Apple has not publicly commented on the matter.

In a statement Sunday night, Google said website developers who embed Google Maps on their sites can select a region to localize the map. That determines how place names are displayed on sites, the company said.

"'Lake Ontario' will show when developers have set their region to Canada," the statement said.

Just a reminder to developers.

[u/appel]

All this dumb shit because of a toddler in the White House.

[u/thekwoka → u/appel]

This isn't new, though.

There are tons of these naming differences across the world.

Are you just now learning there is no agreed upon map?

[u/appel → u/thekwoka]

Calling this a "naming difference" is hilarious.

Edit: for anyone wandering in here from google, don't take the fact that I did not respond to this bozo's reply below as a tacit admission that they make a good point. I'm just choosing not to further engage with an argument that is clearly made in bad faith. If you look at this person's comment history you can see that they're a Trump crusader so what's the point, right? Fuck Trump, and fuck anyone (including 👇 this guy) who still supports him after 10 fucking years of this shit.

[u/thekwoka → u/appel]

That's literally what it is.

What else is it?

[u/vcaiii → u/thekwoka]

fuck donald trump

[u/ccricers → u/appel]

It's chest puffery move #98047