Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America

The Google blog post is more useful: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gni...

  The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Lake America," those in Canada will continue to see "Lake Ontario," and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.

Couldn’t we, the rest of the world, continue to see Lake Ontario, as it was before? It’s a very stupid thing to do and I guess most of us, if asked, would be on team Canada..

Start swimming in Lake America, end up in Lake Ontario. Funnily enough, Ontario is an indigenous word that predates both American and Canadian governments.

I see it as "Lake Ontario (Lake America)" in the UK. This is so petty there must be a word for it in some language somewhere in the world.

https://archive.is/hllsk

Incredibly embarrassing for Google.

Why not call it Lake Trump, hang a tarp blocking our view to it, and be done with it.

The American dream reduced to an idiocracy.

Page title is now "Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America" which is probably more accurate than "Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America" (which could've been the title earlier.

Trump renamed the lake. Google just updated the label.

This is the dumbest thing. And we’ve had a lot of dumb things.

What a joke. Ha!