DeGoogle Yourself

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.

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.

Still Ontario from Canada

Humanity has a clear version of evil and has failed to deal with it. Humanity is pathetic.

Other search engines exist

I feel that the foldable, paper maps will be making a big comeback in the near future.

Just goes to show google does not play "follow the facts". It plays "follow the leader".

Apple still lists the lake as Ontario on their maps, so for now it’s just Google being particularly sycophantic towards the Trump administration.

Is this only if your location is the US? Here in the EU I still see Lake Ontario on Google Maps. On OSM I still see "Gulf of Mexico" lol.

Don’t worry, Google is just showing the information they are forced to show you. The rest of the world is different.

I do want to stop using google maps in its entirety, but there are problems with all the other map and navigation apps that haven't been solved that google has working just fine.

Say I want directions to a store or restaurant 20-30 minutes away. I know what its called, not its exact location, so I type its name in and google can give me a list of all places with that name no issue.

I try that in magic earth, organic maps, co maps, its a toss up if it knows the place I am trying to find. So I try typing in the exact address if I have time and can find it online. 90% of the time that just doesn't find the place, and givss me an entire street to look down.

Lastly, often I want to call these places ahead of time, or look at a menu, get a vague idea how much it costs. Google maps just... has that information right there. Hours, images of food, menus, everything. No one else has that, and complications arise, especially when Duck Duck Go give me the wrong number and I place a pick up order from a place on the wrong side of town.

I want to replace google, but damn it if right now its just the best option and doesn't screw anything up. There are times when I cannot afford being late or lost and I can't risk using the other ones.

Ugh, they finally did it. I was checking both of them daily. Apple Maps still calls it Lake Ontario, but it's only a matter of time until Tim Cook bends the knee. He's the one who gave 47 a participation trophy made of gold.

Honestly, this isn't that terrible of Google. VPN outside the US and see what it says. I had to VPN in to get it to show up. Turn off the VPN, and it's back to Lake Ontario after force quitting the app and reloading it. There are a ton of instances where a country changes a name, or another country does not respect a change and map makers have to support those differences there. Yes the change was political, but changes like that are just part of running a map service.

I mean, if you wanna dump on Google, we can talk about how they're charging iPhone 17 Pro prices for iPhone 11 (or Galaxy S10) power and selling your personal information on the side. It's not hard to make Google look bad. Hell, just stand aside and wave at all the shit they do and your case is made.

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.

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!"

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?

That was fast

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

Screen shot from Google maps just now.

Tis normal in Denmark still