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It’s incredible just how quickly Google and Apple folded to the will of their country’s king renaming stuff.

Google and Apple have a policy of showing every user what their own government officially recognises. For the entire history of Google maps there have been disputed borders and names where Google just shows users different results based on their location.

And in the EU I get a label with both on Google Maps: "Lake Ontario (Lake America)"

Same for the Gulf of Mexico.

Language is another dimension on top of location when it comes to maps. At least the German maps pretty much translate that label 1:1.

Except Canadians who noticed that it was Lake America?

Oops, sorry, didn’t notice you were in Canada eh?

Likely story. No way Google could tell Canada and the US apart.

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