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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] 56 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

I'm Canadian and I switched to maps.here.com, a European service as it provides good transit info. We need to move away from American hegemony.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    HERE Maps will include the change, I 100% guarantee it. They have Gulf of America pushed to prod servers. (switch to US vpn location and you will see it)

    source: I may or may not work for them 🫠

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    As long as they only change it in the US, that's fine with me. I'd still rather support the EU.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    FYI... Changing it in the US only is exactly what Google is doing, just like with the Gulf.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Except I also have it as lake America and I'm in Europe.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Did you search for lake America? I'm also in Europe and replied to your other comment with pics. It defaults to lake Ontario for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    No. I searched for Lake Ontario. That comes up with the pictures etc, and that has Lake America in backets. Then I zoomed in to it and it was just Lake America. However that was yesterday, today it is back to Ontario.
    The day before I also checked it out and it was only Ontario, without even the brackets. So it was only for a day for some reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I thought they relied on open street map

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    HERE Maps? Absolutely not. OSM is a competitor to HERE.

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