OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?
Still Ontario from Canada
Google has shown local variations to borders etc. for… decades? They do not define them, after all.
Fucking boo.
Also, and this is weird, mine shows Lake America at one level of zoom, then changes back to Lake Ontario, and then changes to Lake America all over again at an even closer level of zoom. Everything is ridiculous and awful.
Just because a boot liker calls something by a name, does not make it so, if anything, when you hear someone say “THe guLf of aMericA” you know on the spot, you don’t loose anything by stopping the conversation right there and then.
Incredible that anyone wants to work for such Pscho corporations. They must be incredibly ignorant outside their job-function - I hope…
google maps New Zealand
Why would it be changed for New Zealand?
Edit - Ah wait, that’s a point of interest and not the map label.
that is the result from typing ‘lake ontario’ into google maps (not signed in) on a browser
this is what shows on a mouseover
If google maps is unable to properly label the names of cities, lakes, etc, then it shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Block google maps in Canada, problem solved
It is labeling them properly though? In the US it’s called Lake America which is now the official American name for it. In the rest of the world it’s named Lake Ontario.
Thing is, it’s not unusual for bodies of water to have different names depending on where you’re from. What we call Läänemeri (Western Sea), the Germans call Ostsee (Eastern Sea). You likely know it as the Baltic Sea.
Yes but no
This is just a case of a basket case narcissist traitor with psychopathic tendencies trying to flex his blubbery muscles
I do want to stop using google maps in its entirety, but there are problems with all the other map and navigation apps that haven’t been solved that google has working just fine.
Say I want directions to a store or restaurant 20-30 minutes away. I know what its called, not its exact location, so I type its name in and google can give me a list of all places with that name no issue.
I try that in magic earth, organic maps, co maps, its a toss up if it knows the place I am trying to find. So I try typing in the exact address if I have time and can find it online. 90% of the time that just doesn’t find the place, and givss me an entire street to look down.
Lastly, often I want to call these places ahead of time, or look at a menu, get a vague idea how much it costs. Google maps just… has that information right there. Hours, images of food, menus, everything. No one else has that, and complications arise, especially when Duck Duck Go give me the wrong number and I place a pick up order from a place on the wrong side of town.
I want to replace google, but damn it if right now its just the best option and doesn’t screw anything up. There are times when I cannot afford being late or lost and I can’t risk using the other ones.
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Other search engines exist
Lets be real though, nobody comes close on the quality of Google Maps. Everyone needs to contribute to OSM.
Everyone should just report the error to Google over and over and over again. Remind them that the federal government doesn’t actually have unilateral authority to rename major international geographic features on the whim of a single deranged despot.
I knew google was fucked when I pulled up youtube shorts and the first video was fuck face tucker carlson dropping anti semitic terms.
