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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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Well, shit.
edit: To be clear, CoMaps and OpenStreetMaps is still leagues better than Google Maps for privacy, respecting users, etc and I recommend people switch. But it’s still a community-run project which means the community needs to participate to keep it awesome.
If we read the rest of that thread they are ~~but~~ not changing the name. They are adding a tag stating it has an alternate name.
Edit: fixed typos.