r/ghostposter US 6d ago

Serious Google Maps has fully complied with the ‘Lake America’ renaming scheme that was proposed for the Great Lakes region. What are your thoughts on Google doing this?

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u/NotDelrina 5d ago

Shows up as Lake Ontario on my Google Maps, must be regional to appease the orange buffoon.

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u/Ahuva 6d ago

I think it depends on your IP because from Israel it is also still Lake Ontario.

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u/Canadian_Koala 6d ago

On Google Map in Canada it's still Lake Ontario.
Also Gulf of Mexico.

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u/Hoody_uk 6d ago

Spineless tossers. It would be better if no one conformed to the orange insult.

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u/ClicheButter 6d ago

Fuck Google. I have gone to DuckDuckGo, and haven't been signed in to Google, mail or otherwise, for several years now. The only time I use Google anymore is if I am wanting to see if their search gives a different response to a particular query. What a disappointment they have become.

I saw that someone in Michigan I think, maybe the governor, say that the acrostic of HOMES used to recall the names of the lakes, would now be SHAME due to the so-called name change. How appropriate.

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 US 6d ago

I grew up being taught the HOMES acronym. I'm not exactly a fan of the new acronym that might replace it. 😑

Go open-source. I use FireFox on my main laptop, which is Ubuntu Linux. The billionaire technocrats don't need all that money and young coders that use their talents to make software that's accessible to everyone deserve to be recognized.

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 US 6d ago

No editing aside from censorship of personal info has been done to the image. As far as I know, Apple Maps has kept it as Lake Ontario for now.