Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S.

vivzkestrel

- they do this in india too, a different map of kashmir is shown depending on which country the person is viewing it from

willismichael

Wouldn't it be enough to detect if the request is coming from a very specific subset of clients and send them what they want?

k310

Big Brother and the party must rewrite history. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510464#49511011 Emmanuel Goldstein's work: From 1984 by George Orwell. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0] PDF download: [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli... [1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...

mindslight

For the technicals, this is why data source malleability and decentralization is important, even if 99.9% of the time you never want to use it. How much needless sticky friction is there from people's workflows defaulting to "Google Maps" software , which has no option to actually pull up from this and let people decide "you know, this US GNIS doesn't seem very authoritative any more". Does OpenStreetMap show any inkling of propagating these stupid antics? Politically, tell me again how the "unitary executive theory" (aka autocracy by any other name) is going to make our country "great" ? We're a fucking laughingstock - if this senile old man were in the correct venue of a memory care home , staff would have long ago learned to mitigate his behavior - and it's not like the rest of the world is blind to this! Instead the corpos and their stooges stuck him in the highest office in the land and let him loose from the rule of law, to destroy what last vestiges of Constitutional rights we have left. We're talking about what had been a straightforwardly trustable agency, now having that trust destroyed simply to preserve one idiot's ego after having been called on his bullshit.

taurath

Fiduciary responsibility seems to mean that one has no choice but to follow orders if under threat - something that is worth remembering when it seems that corporate power is larger than state power. Also shows how a lot of people making moves in the short term, especially if they “have no choice”, leads to acquiescence of totalitarianism. It seems we have no belief in collective power.

zug_zug

I feel like there's a way to make a policy that is "We update all geographies within America at 4 years, once a rename has had time to make it into the common parlance." But whatever, every such scar he leaves will just be on the list of reminders of why he was the worst president in history, and likely haunt the party for decades.

fatnoah

FWIW, I worked on map rendering in a past life at another large tech company. General policy was to show "official" names and borders based on the user's country. It wasn't quite that clean, but IIRC there were a surprising number of disputed borders and place names in the world.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495947

IncandescentGas

Renaming Lake Ontario is Not Just Stupid and Petty. It is also Illegal. https://verdict.justia.com/2026/08/31/renaming-lake-ontario-...

throwawayk7h

The province Ontario was named after the lake, not vice versa. It's kind of absurd to rename this lake in particular just because it seems the least American-sounding.

ElijahLynn

:sigh: As an American, I offer my apology to Canada and the world for this action.