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.
Well now the “HOMES” nmemonic doesn’t work anymore… Gotta switch that O out for an A… I guess we could go with “SHAME:”
- Superior
- Huron
- America
- Michigan
- Eerie
Still SHOME in Canada.
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.
Whatever… what about the epstein files?
They’re now renamed to America files.
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.
Good boy Google, wuf.
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.
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?
Yet another reason to switch to OSMAnd (OpenStreetMaps).
OpenStreetMap still showing Lake Ontario.
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.
The US tech giants are the IG Farben and Krupp of MAGA.
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.
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).
