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Everyone should just report the error to Google over and over and over again. Remind them that the federal government doesn't actually have unilateral authority to rename major international geographic features on the whim of a single deranged despot.
Fucking boo.
Also, and this is weird, mine shows Lake America at one level of zoom, then changes back to Lake Ontario, and then changes to Lake America all over again at an even closer level of zoom. Everything is ridiculous and awful.

google maps New Zealand

Smallest of the 5 great lakes 😂
Google couldn't wait to roll it out.... Fuck those fascist ego strokers.
Not even a bit of pushback. Dead silence from a them, just straight up compliance.
They are an arm of the government lol they for sure had this one queued up before this was even announced
It’s almost as if Alphabet/Google and the tyrant oligarchs are one and the same. That would be preposterous, though, right?
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.
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
I’m sure after making this kind of change, they also have an automated system that redirects all related support tickets directly to the trash.
Google has been sending support requests directly to the trash for at least 20 years, nothing new here
Still Ontario from Canada


Not for me. Using a Canadian VPN.
Really Bud?
If it's true, it's probably geolocked to only the US seeing it.
Guaranteed is. This is not new to Google, they have disputed territories, disputed names, they have gone through this before. This is just Americans seeing it for the first time. Google probably has an admin page that let's them set it up without ever needing an engineer anymore. If you're within this polygon you see this line, else you see the line over there. The alternative is they get sued/shut down in that country/ etc. While I have no love for Google, this is simply them picking their battles.
I remember Google doing it with the Gulf of Mexico, so they shouldn’t be too surprised it wasn’t that long ago.
American here, currently traveling through the (boring) state of Nebraska.
I just checked Google Maps from my Android tablet app. It shows Lake America for me:

Its well known that Google Maps shows different names/borders depending on where the user accesses it from
Spain here… still says Lake Ontario on mine

But I remember when the “Gulf of America” was declared, it still said Gulf of Mexico for a while, after a while it changed it to both names:

Sad state of affairs, but this is google 🤷♂️

Apple still lists the lake as Ontario on their maps, so for now it’s just Google being particularly sycophantic towards the Trump administration.
Just because a boot liker calls something by a name, does not make it so, if anything, when you hear someone say "THe guLf of aMericA" you know on the spot, you don't loose anything by stopping the conversation right there and then.
If google maps is unable to properly label the names of cities, lakes, etc, then it shouldn't be allowed to operate.
Block google maps in Canada, problem solved

Edit: It's Lake Ontario. It's always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.
Other search engines exist
Humanity has a clear version of evil and has failed to deal with it. Humanity is pathetic.
Just goes to show google does not play "follow the facts". It plays "follow the leader".

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