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The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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It's not that MapQuest won't change it, it's that the name hasn't changed.
It does matter. If entire generation of Americans grow up with Gulf of America and Lake America, that will be the name of Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario in the US.
That seems like primarily a US problem