Google Maps shows 'Lake America' to US users after name change
In the new Reuters/Ipsos poll, 7% of Americans said they “strongly support” changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. 7%
Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦104I haven't seen any polling on this, but I suspect that here in Canada, at least 90% of Canadians would support throwing Trump into Lake Ontario.
Mike Pij70I would assume that many of those in the 7% don’t know where the fuck it is.
Middlerage25Trump really has his tiny necrotic finger on the pulse of what Americans care about 🙄
javier 🇺🇦 🇬🇱18Superior Huron America Michigan Erie
mojowy.bsky.social13With Trumps math thats %2000.
Dove13Jfc Those same people probably still call them freedom fries.
Teddy Rebooted 🔔🇺🇸 🇺🇦💯3Only 3% away from double-digits. Sad.
Kat Victorino3There is 7% of the population who do not need to procreate 🙄
Chris Connolly2bsky.app/profile/ronf... We are being governed by an idiot.
franklee246.bsky.social2Maybe we should rename Madison Square Gardens, Maple Leaf Gardens.
Bronwyn Joye2Aaaaand I can pretty much guarantee that MOST of that 7% would fail to correctly select it on a map, even given that it’s a 1 in 5 chance.
here's today's post: "Google Maps can pretty much fuck all the way off" — what kind of bullshit is ‘Lake America’? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
Gary Gifford25And a reminder that Duck Duck Go is a great search engine that doesn't track you or do stupid shit for Trump.
Wintermute9"Lake Ontario is referenced and its boundaries are outlined in the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the United States and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy Signed: November 11, 1794, by President George Washington"
Crabby Aunt Edna9Map Quest refused to budge to Trump’s ego. I switched.
Cats Working8I'd raise AOC one better. Instead of a fucking ballroom atop Trump's new military complex, only used a few times a year, make it data center. Yeah, 1/3 of the White House a 90,000-sq-ft data center churning out data 24/7, making lights flicker, toilets go dry, conversations impossible for the noise.
@ravenswoodkid.bsky.social6If you put Lake Ontario in Google Maps it will open to Lake America. There is a place to leave a review. I gave it one star and called them cowards.
ejguentzel.bsky.social5Samsung forces Google Maps on our phones. Disabled it though. So sick and tired of companies showing how weak and pathetic they really are.
We won’t forget how you rushed to kiss his ass Google Maps.
Bonnie Schwertner13I now have the Mapquest app.
Trump/GOP=N@zis. Stand w🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇪🇵🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇭6Apple Maps still hanging in with Ontario. And for Gulf of Mexico (Trumps designation is secondary and in parentheses).
Brandy5Yeah, I got rid of all my Google stuff. The only thing I have left is email, but I don't use their app to read my emails.
Cam5Use Mapquest instead. They are not bending the knee.
Richard Adlof . . .4Deleted Google Maps app. Installed MapQuest app. Deleted Google Chrome app. Made DuckDuckGo my default browser app.
LowerLeftBall3Whats google maps?!? I deleted google apps. I have mapquest and openstreets. I use a different browser.
Reading articles about how various map services - Google, Apple, MapQuest etc. react to Trump renaming lake Ontario, and nobody, even in passing, mentions Bing maps lol.
David Collier2Didn’t even know bing had maps. But hey, they got Lake Ontario.
CosmicHomicide2It's still Lake Ontario, but Bing went all in on AI so still irrelevant.
PJ, Sports Enjoyer🇸🇪🇺🇸1Waze still has it as Lake Ontario, which is weird bc I thought they were owned by Google
ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕎𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕪1TIL Bing even had maps
Dag.36Bing is the RC cola of mapping software.
For anyone who thought Apple was better than Google: They're not. Apple has now changed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its Maps platform, following Google’s lead. Thankfully, @mapquest.com still calls it Lake Ontario. Sometimes the small players get it right. Lake Ontario: Then, Now, Always!🇨🇦
Twitter Exile2Wow. Apple has changed it for those outside of US too. If you search #LakeAmerica that’s what you find. If you search #LakeOntario it shows “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”.
KayElan7ISO64🇨🇦2Samsung phones are not American.
Rob Bulnes 🍁2You can send Apple your thoughts on this feedback form: www.apple.com/feedback/map...
Jeff1And in related news: Apple is now Crapple. Google is now Goebble.
Google paints Lake Ontario as Lake America on US maps after DC files the rename. Users flee to MapQuest keeping the ancient name. Maps now as oligarch spray cans. #RenamedWaters
Sheesh1MapQuest also allowed users to jokingly select a name for the lake. It was quite funny. My choice was Lake Shitsalot.
EllenM1The paint is tarnishing Google and should start peeling off any day now 🤦♀️ Stupid is as stupid does And these are folks feeing AI summaries rather than primary sources. Working to dumb us down to quell the resistance. TechBros getting richer sucking the shit out the Dumster Diaper.
It’s still Lake Ontario ( as it should be) on Google maps on iPhone in Australia
DeJenerate🎻🐨📚3Google Maps took my Google Pixel phone in NSW to the right place, but it was labelled Lake America. A couple of days ago it took me to the South Atlantic Ocean, just off West Africa! It seems extremely confused.
Raindrops_on_Roses2It gives both names for me (android phone)
PaulWA141And on Apple Maps, for the moment. The first search result returns the Lake America 🐂💩 then if you tap, it defaults to plain old Lake Ontario.
3wombats1It was both for me on Google yesterday Apple map just had Lake of Ontario