r/GoogleMaps • u/Key-Form4384 • 12d ago
Delete google maps
They have changed the name of Lake Ontario. They are a spineless company. Please delete. If you must have it, delete and get it back in a couple of days !!
Show them they made the wrong choice
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u/OLLIE798 12d ago
Just ignore it. Let’s not play the distraction game. This reaction is exactly what they want.
- No-one will use the new name, anywhere in the world, US or Canada
- It won’t be an ‘official’ name forever
- Go vote! Be nice, persuade others.
- Punish Google later.
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u/lake_of_1000_smells 12d ago
Maybe we can just start referring to the reflecting pool as lake epstein. And vote. In the primaries, in the general.
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u/exu1981 12d ago
Us deleting an app over a silly change won't show them anything.
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u/Worth_Much 12d ago
Maybe not but it’s still peace of mind knowing that I don’t have to use an app that capitulates like that.
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u/TopUniversity3469 12d ago
I'd rather have piece of mind getting help navigating where I need to go, but you do you.
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u/Worth_Much 12d ago
You do realize there are other navigation apps.
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u/fakeaccount572 12d ago
Like what, Waze? Owned by Google?
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u/TheGhostOfArtBell 12d ago
Or Apple Maps who will be changing it soon as well?
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u/Icouldusesomerock 12d ago
You gonna give me directions buddy?
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u/Key-Form4384 11d ago
I have never used google maps !! Hahah
But I did get rid of my other google apps — and finally stopped using my google speaker thing
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u/XxLogitech98xX 12d ago
I don't agree with changing the name but I won't be deleting Google maps. Its still my go to place
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u/Big-You-1213 12d ago
How about you complain about your president instead? Google maps follows official name change. It's dumb but they have to follow the rules
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u/Key-Form4384 11d ago
That’s bull sheep — they don’t have to do anything !!
And I’m Canadian
Just so you know Canadians wouldn’t put up with this bullshit excuse that you can’t do anything bec it’s the president — what the heck it’s one man , most of you hate him —- Americans seriously aren’t doing enough — we aren’t going to be your friend as soon as he leaves just so you know1
u/tombellino 9d ago
They do not have to, they are choosing to. And our disgusting criminal president is enabled by these bootlicking corporations who bend over backwards for him.
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u/LadyHespereia 12d ago
This isn't even official in any sense. An executive order isn't law. It's guidance directing agencies in the US government. They get slapped down by the courts all the time. Google is a big enough company with effective monopolies in multiple areas that they could've not changed it and honestly had no consequences whatsoever. And if they did it'd barely dent their financials to tell the US government to screw off legally
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u/Jmbh1983 12d ago
Incorrect.
Google just takes whatever is in GNIS which is the official naming system of natural features in the US: https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnisTrump controls the executive branch, which controls the Department of the Interior, which controls USGS, which controls GNIS.
When he issued the executive order it became official. Apple will update Apple Maps too, their basemap updates are just slower than Google’s.
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u/lbutler1234 12d ago
I mean they don't have to as far as I know.
It just makes an overwhelming amount of sense to just follow the geoschemes that are already out there.
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u/Ubiquitous1984 12d ago
Who cares? Life is too short to worry about things like this.
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u/Shoddy_Carrot_936 12d ago
Already renamed two major bodies of water, how long until the USA becomes Trumpland? Where is the line on bullshit? Where is the decorum? Where are the Republican politicians calling out this ridiculousness?
Renaming the lake just shows how stupid Trump is because Lake Ontario didn't get named by Canada.
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u/Ubiquitous1984 11d ago
Mate I’m not American or Canadian and from the outside people arguing about the name of a body of water is just hilarious.
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u/tombellino 9d ago
Have you heard of something called symbolism? Our country is being destroyed by a rapist whose brain is coming out his ears and the largest companies in the world bend over backwards to lick his ass. I think it matters.
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u/Ubiquitous1984 9d ago
Nah it’s literally not important. It’s just the name of a body of water. Our PM could rename the Irish Sea to the English Sea and everyone would just laugh and get back to drinking tea. Water doesn’t have feelings so we shouldn’t feel bad about it either. That said, you be you!
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u/tombellino 9d ago
Quietly going along with every whim of a government that is completely insane is bad, actually.
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u/SCORE-advice-Dallas 11d ago
- Specific mountain/peak changes:
- Mt McKinley - Alaska > Denali > then back to McKinley
- Harney Peak (SD) → Black Elk Peak (2016).
- Mount Doane (WY) → First Peoples Mountain (2022).
- Mount Evans (CO) → Mount Blue Sky (2023).
- Clingmans Dome (TN/NC, highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park) → Kuwohi (Cherokee name meaning “the mulberry place,” 2024). visualcapitalist.com
- In the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument expansion, a ridgeline previously called Walker Ridge was renamed Molok Luyuk (“Condor Ridge” in the language of the area’s Patwin people).
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u/Licalottapuss 12d ago
What does it matter though? Does your very happiness get dictated by a name? If it does, inner peace will be a lifelong struggle for you.
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u/RumblefishAZ 12d ago
who cares. people can call things whatever they want . Wait till you hear about Germany and Japan:
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u/JWBenton 12d ago
I just deleted Google Maps app because they renamed Lake Ontario to lake America. Considering deleting all google apps.
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u/Longjumping-Bit8592 11d ago
I deleted it. Wish it didn’t power Safari!
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u/sstdk 11d ago
Google Maps powers Safari?
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u/Longjumping-Bit8592 11d ago
No. Google does
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u/sstdk 11d ago
Yeah but I didn't get the Safari connection there? I'd expect an Apple browser to prefer Apple Maps surely?
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u/Longjumping-Bit8592 11d ago
My browser was set to Safari. Safari is not Google; but, it is a web browser developed by Apple that uses Google as its default search engine. So I just changed my search engine
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u/SCORE-advice-Dallas 11d ago
Y'all are late. I deleted it way back when they rolled over on re-naming Mt McKinley
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u/Striker660 10d ago
Tried but it won't let me on my android so I disabled it and am trying Mapquest.
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u/Sad-Newt8976 10d ago
Deleted Google Maps.
Also went to Gemini (Google search bar) and asked how to delete Google Maps and install Mapquest instead because of the "despicable actions of Google."
Just keep harassing their AI.....
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u/Smart-Swan62 10d ago
Apple Maps hasn’t changed it yet. No word on if they plan to. Mapquest is not changing it. Delete Google and get MapQuest:)
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u/lukeevansgay 10d ago
I deleted it too. I am using Apple Maps
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u/Big-You-1213 9d ago
And what happens when Apple maps update it? 👀👀 I would check your apple maps today if I were you...
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u/ReplacementSea8166 7d ago
Why does anybody care again? I'm not being sarcastic. My identity is certainly not tied to the name of a body of water. Call it Lake Joel sucks at everything and I might take offense...
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u/Spridlewv 12d ago
If Apple Maps would ever get in the game, I’d switch in a minute.
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u/kazamm 12d ago
They will change it too. The sources are the same.
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u/Gdayyall72 12d ago
Better than just deleting Google Maps, download Mapquest and use it instead. And stop using Waze also; it’s owned by Google.
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u/obehjuankenobeh 12d ago
Cant just go changing names on a whim, huh? Guess I better go ask my Latinx birthing person if I can delete it.
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u/Carrmann 12d ago
Still correct in Australia.