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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 31 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm Canadian and I switched to maps.here.com, a European service as it provides good transit info. We need to move away from American hegemony.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

HERE Maps will include the change, I 100% guarantee it. They have Gulf of America pushed to prod servers. (switch to US vpn location and you will see it)

source: I may or may not work for them 🫠

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

As long as they only change it in the US, that's fine with me. I'd still rather support the EU.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

FYI... Changing it in the US only is exactly what Google is doing, just like with the Gulf.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Except I also have it as lake America and I'm in Europe.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Did you search for lake America? I'm also in Europe and replied to your other comment with pics. It defaults to lake Ontario for me.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 points 55 minutes ago

No. I searched for Lake Ontario. That comes up with the pictures etc, and that has Lake America in backets. Then I zoomed in to it and it was just Lake America. However that was yesterday, today it is back to Ontario.
The day before I also checked it out and it was only Ontario, without even the brackets. So it was only for a day for some reason.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

website doesn't even open for me xD

i just use osmand on my phone for general navigation and my city's public transportation app for navigating the bus system