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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users (www.ctvnews.ca)

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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Except it shows up as Lake Americas in my google maps and I'm in Europe...

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

Mine has it in brackets. They can honestly fuck off with that.

Like I specifically searched lake Ontario.

Edit: if I go out of search there's no mention of the wrong name however.

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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

That's how it is for me now. The actual lake was labeled as Lake Americas yesterday however, today it's back to Ontario.

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