DeGoogle Yourself

Honestly, this is pure overreaction once again. It's well known that Google (and most non-OSS maps) show their information for your location based on the official sources for that location. The new, official name in the US for Lake Ontario is Lake America, like it or not. That this is stupid, unhinged and a fully retarded Trump take is true, but it's official for the American side. Canada could do the same and call it Lake Canada. It doesn't change how other countries call it, but any country could name it the way it wants.

This is not some Trumpist at Google doing insider work. This is not a conspiracy of Google supporting Trump. It's that Google maps is querying its data from some source and pushing it into maps, as they do with any country official source, if it's available.

Again, not defending Google's other shit or Trumps madness, but in this case they're showing the correct data. What's the issue here?

If you go to the USGS map, you see a banner that says

Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for this application are in the process of being

Presumably the sentence finishes if you aren't on mobile. Secretarial Order 3453 points you to Executive Order 14420, which is Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans. I'm starting to think we don't have the best and brightest leading the country, you guys.

Screen shot from Google maps just now.

That was fast

Strong 8th grade vibes. "I asked Becky if she would be my girlfriend and she said no, so I crossed her name off my textbook cover and wrote BITCH over it. That'll show her! Why isn't she noticing what I wrote? Fuckin' Becky is such a bitch, she hasn't even looked at what I wrote over her name!"

Tis normal in Denmark still

Yeah, fuck Google for so many reasons. I'm so sick of their shit. They sensor YouTube comments, too.

Still normal in the UK

If you're bored, report missing information and say the lake is wrong and that this will cause conflicts with street signs and directions for actual locations. May as well give them a bunch of support tickets that waste some amount of resources

google maps New Zealand

Getting in a tiff about this lake shmake nonsense lends to its legitimacy.

Let's talk turkey. How about them heretofore Epstein files, now known as the trump files.

Google has always shown the local official name for everything. Borders and names can vary a lot depending on where you are from. I still see lake Ontario since I'm not from the US.

google maps Australia

Nothing changed from my side, still lake Ontario.

Pretty sure that lake had a name before anglos rocked up and started calling it Lake Ontario, bud

leave a bad review on for the lake, or even the white house if it upsets you 🤣