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[–] 118 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Both Google and Apple Maps went along with “Gulf of America,” unfortunately, so we’re going to have to see.

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

    From what I understand, they've only changed that for the Americans.

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

    In Australia, both Google and Apple Maps say 'Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)'

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    One thing to note, with Gulf of Mexico he actually had Republicans pass a bill to do the change.

    This one is an executive order. An executive order is what the name implies. It is not a law, but an order for executive agencies to follow. So while employees of agencies like FBI or IRS are instructed to call the lake as lake America, as far as the rest of the country is concerned the lake is still the Lake Ontario.

    It's clearly is a stunt to distract from the pedophilia and a failed war.

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    [–] 42 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Under the authority of myself, I'm hereby issuing an executive order-

    "Lake Erie", located on the border of the Canadian province of Ontario and the US states of Ohio Gozaimasu, De La Ruesynavia and New Jerk shall be effective immediately named 'Eerie Lake'

    I am also renaming the township of 'Erie' to 'Eerie'

    Thank you for your attention on this matter.

    • Ms. Lane of Australia, Secretary of Procrastination.
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    [–] 36 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I doubt Maps.me is on board.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Gulf of America, Lake America, how long will it be until they rename the Rio Grande the "River America" and the Atlantic the "America Ocean"?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Shh, don't give 'em any ideas.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    Lake Epstein Files

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Still producing noisy distraction from EPSTEIN FILES.
    Sad old man. One day a lot of people will smile when he goes away.

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

    They should rename every lake to "Lake America". And replace hard words Trump struggles with to Trump.

    Like positive. Or negative. Or vaccination.

    altr

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Google Maps obeyed Pedo Daddy instantly when it came to Gulf of Mexico.

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Just go to therapy, my guy. Arbitrarily naming bodies of water that nobody outside your country will use will not fill the hole in you.

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    [–] 15 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Is Google maps a thing? Have they changed the name?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    They did when he declared the Gulf of Mexico had a new name, so did others. Nearly immediately.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Countries ought to rename their most toxic places after Trump.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    At this point I'm just excited to see what stupid thing he comes up with next. "From now on, we will not call them North America and South America. We will call them Free America and Not America".

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Who cares what this senile child-fucker calls anything?

    I just know he's the main character in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)

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

    The province 'Ontario' was named after the lake, so ....

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

    I wonder how OSM would treat something like this

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

    Wonder not:

    https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975

    Basically, OSM is a database containing points, paths, and polygons.

    Each item can have any number of fields. Obvious ones like lat and lon, and specific ones like speed limit or entry fee.

    An item can have many names, and its up to the renderer to choose which to show a user, or whether to show any.

    The locale specific name for the US will change whenever the US govt department adopts the new name.

    The general, most commonly used name will be lake Ontario until the most common make for the lake is lake America, which is unlikely to be ever.

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

    The funniest part about calling Lake Ontario “Lake America” is that Canada didn't even name the damn thing.

    The name Ontario comes from an Indigenous/Iroquoian name that predates both the United States and Canada by centuries. In fact, the province of Ontario was named after the lake, not the other way around.

    So we're essentially renaming an Indigenous-named international lake because we're mad at Canada, despite Canada having nothing to do with its original name.

    That's some truly impressive historical illiteracy. “Lake America” sounds less like a geographical renaming and more like a toddler putting their name on someone else's toy because they're pissed off at them.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    OpenStreetMap contributors included it as:

    official_name:en-US Lake America

    https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310

    Wikidata editors also included it:

    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1062#P1448

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I'm just impressed he didn't try slapping his name on it.

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