this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
577 points (98.0% liked)

Technology

87733 readers
4188 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
577
Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
141 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the official GNIS name now, and is usually just piped into the maps. There aren't people actually deciding which names to use at Google, HERE, whatever, etc ... we just push sources in.

They’re doing it because they want to. Because they know it will make Trump happy.

sure, ok ... guess you know more than my 20+ years experience at a digital map company that actually taught google how to make their maps.

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Google deciding to continue using a dataset that has been completely captured by a megalomaniac at the head of an authoritarian regime is on them. I cannot stress enough that they do not have to use GNIS, as evidenced by all the other map apps that, y'know, don't.