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wombat-man • today at 5:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's in USGS now: https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/directed-president-...

Idk what timeline you're looking at, but if they knew it was changing anyway, might as well.

Also, the President in many ways has a lot of control over all three branches of government. Do they really want to risk contracts because USGS hasn't technically been updated yet?


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jordanb • today at 5:58 PM

Google claimed that they pull from USGS and they had no control of the name.

But the USGS database (GNIS) did not update when Google (and Apple) changed the name. Google's claim that they pulled from GNIS was untrue

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-maps-renames-...

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