Incredible that anyone wants to work for such Pscho corporations. They must be incredibly ignorant outside their job-function - I hope..

I'm just going to play devil's advocate because it was essentially mandated that they change it. What does google say outside of the US though? If they changed it for Canadians or non-US, then absolutely they deserve all the pitchforks. If it's just in US, well, we shouldn't be mad at them for this one.

Really Bud?

If it's true, it's probably geolocked to only the US seeing it.

Possibly, but that doesn't look like a maps compass rose I've ever seen.

It's an executive order, no business has to follow it.

European here just checked it still says Ontario on mine.
Checked gmaps on android and ios as well as Apple Maps, all say Ontario here.

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 didn't believe you so I checked and yep, they actually fucking did it.

Could be for Android or something.

Here’s what I see on iOS in Australia

I remember Google doing it with the Gulf of Mexico, so they shouldn’t be too surprised it wasn’t that long ago.

They're picking their battles. They could go against this, but what would they win? Mild PR from users? They have a lot more to lose. I have no love for google but this was never going to be a fight they were going to make.

Thanks for checking! Yup makes sense. In that case I see it purely as they flipped it in the US, it's not their fight to have.

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:

this is simply them picking their battles.

name a battle they picked to fight for the benefit of the common man in the last :

• 1 month
• 3 months
• 6 months
• 1 Year

If they're picking battles, they must have done something worthwhile, right?

No, that's not what I said, I said they're picking their battles, and I didn't offer any reason or justification for why. You can do that if you choose, but I'm not going to go off and do errands to prove a point I wasn't making.

It would be a solid PR move to ignore the orange pedophile's tantrums, but all of silicon valley is just another head of the same grotesque chimera that is the US ruling class.

Eh I don't think it would. The vast majority of American's don't care, or eyeroll. The blame right now isn't on google, it's on the one who signed the order. Those who do care are a very small minority. So maybe Google gets a bit of PR? But they also piss off the white house, and valiant or not we've seen how petty they can be there.

I said they’re picking their battles, and I didn’t offer any reason or justification for why

OK, and I'm saying they are not picking anything, and just rolling over. There is no fucking battle that they are fighting, so they aren't picking any battles.

Look, I hate Google as much as the next guy, but do you know what the phrase "picking your battles" actually means?

Jfc. So how is OsmAnd these days?

Yeah, reserving your resources for moments that actually matter instead of wasting them for every petty issue.

But I don't think they are reserving anything for any moment, worthwhile or not. So they aren't "picking their battles" they are "doing jack shit"

Can executive orders force private companies to change how they name something? It sounds like a First Amendment issue.

Just installed it to compare my driving route tomorrow with Google Maps and OsmAnd crashed. Sigh.

On the contrary....

Its well known that Google Maps shows different names/borders depending on where the user accesses it from

I'm from the US but moved to Sweden a year ago. It's changed for me when I look at it. So maybe it's not specifically geolocjed but has to do with where my account was set up, or some localization setting somewhere?

It is Android.

We all remember the usa and google doing this to The Gulf of Mexico don't we?

That is why we no longer accept US people referring to themselves as Americans, they don't own the continent(s), even though that is their obvious aim.

I can't comprehend what's going on!? Why!?

google maps Australia

google maps New Zealand

I think car navigation is better in CoMaps, even though OsmAnd is superior in every other way.

The result of 60 years of propaganda and anti-intellectualism

Google has always shown the local official name for everything. Borders and names can vary a lot depending on where you are from. I still see lake Ontario since I'm not from the US.

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

So.. Any good FOSS alternatives for navigation while biking?

I tried changing to Organic Maps but had to change back because it was really inaccurate outside of cities and the voice guide kept telling me to turn too early or too late 😮‍💨

Still says Lake Ontario for me, on Android, in Google Maps. I'm in Europe

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.

2 hours later and they’ve fully renamed it.

Well that was a fucking lie.

It's still Ontario in Germany (Android).

OsmAnd doesn't crash for me but for some reason it gives most directions as notifications instead of saying them out loud, which is completely useless. I use HERE WeGo instead.

Nothing changed from my side, still lake Ontario.

IIRC they did this with the Gulf of Mexico too

OsmAnd~ with Brouter works very well on Android. You can even choose various routing modes that change how much it avoids large roads. Unfortunately its a bit fiddly to setup and the OsmAnd UX is extremely yanky.

I really don't like the user experience of OsmAnd to the point where I find it unusable. I use Comaps all the time and love it. Each to their own I guess.

I never had problems with Comaps or Organic Maps, and in my experience they are particularly good outside of cities.

I don't use voice guide though, but my advice would be to give comaps a shot and see if they fixed whatever bug you were having.

Still normal in the UK

Of course they pick battles for their interest all the time, do you think they have never sued anyone? https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/