Pretty sure that lake had a name before anglos rocked up and started calling it Lake Ontario, bud
leave a bad review on for the lake, or even the white house if it upsets you 🤣
According to wiki
The name Ontario is likely derived from the Iroquoian word Kaniatarí:io or Oniatarí:io meaning “lake of shining waters” or “beautiful lake”.[10] It has been in use since at least 1639.[11] During French colonial Canada, various other names for the lake were also used, including Frontenac and St. Louis, though Ontario ultimately became the common term.[11]
So a rare use of the given name by the local people. The french had a go of a rebrand but it didn’t stick.
Ontario pretty obviously doesn’t have a romance etymology my dude
Google has always shown the local official name for everything. Borders and names can vary a lot depending on where you are from. I still see lake Ontario since I’m not from the US.
Incredible that anyone wants to work for such Pscho corporations. They must be incredibly ignorant outside their job-function - I hope…
Just because a boot liker calls something by a name, does not make it so, if anything, when you hear someone say “THe guLf of aMericA” you know on the spot, you don’t loose anything by stopping the conversation right there and then.
Something like this happened in the recent past and now Mexicans are starting to call it the Rio Grande instead of the Rio Bravo
Its no longer wild or grand.
That was fast
Google couldn’t wait to roll it out… Fuck those fascist ego strokers.
Not even a bit of pushback. Dead silence from a them, just straight up compliance.
They are an arm of the government lol they for sure had this one queued up before this was even announced
Probably. Didn’t a Google engineer recently get arrested for insider trading, but got off on a technicality? Something like that.
Why would they push back? there is nothing in it for them, and their shareholders
It’s almost as if Alphabet/Google and the tyrant oligarchs are one and the same. That would be preposterous, though, right?
Yeah, fuck Google for so many reasons. I’m so sick of their shit. They sensor YouTube comments, too.
As of 2026-08-30:
Are you viewing this from America? Because Google changes the names of things based on the country you are in.
I’m in the USA and GoogleMaps shows Lake America right now.
Apple Maps shows Lake Ontario
It’s gonna take me a long time to call it that.
I still call them the Edmonton Eskimos
It’ll always be the Skydome to me
It still shows Lake Ontario for me (I’m in the US), but I may not have all the latest Android updates.
It would be hilarious if it showed as Lake Ontario for Canadians and only Lake America for USAians.
That is how it has always worked. Most of the rest of the world sees Gulf of Mexico and will see Lake Ontario.
There are a lot more disputed and conflicting geographical names than these two. Google has a system in place that aligns naming by country.
I’m in Denmark and Google maps has Gulf of America in parenthesis. Lake Ontario is still just Lake Ontario, though.
google maps, australia
Pretty sure that’s what it is, no sarcasm
It doesn’t depends on a update but as the official name of it in the country you are located. Gulf of Mexico is still Gulf of Mexico everywhere but the US. Lake Ontario is going to keep being Lake Ontario everywhere but the US.
google maps, from australia
A lot of time without checking out, but is the same in Brazil
This is what I see, too. I’m in South America with my location turned off and a VPN running on my device with a US IP address.
I do want to stop using google maps in its entirety, but there are problems with all the other map and navigation apps that haven’t been solved that google has working just fine.
Say I want directions to a store or restaurant 20-30 minutes away. I know what its called, not its exact location, so I type its name in and google can give me a list of all places with that name no issue.
I try that in magic earth, organic maps, co maps, its a toss up if it knows the place I am trying to find. So I try typing in the exact address if I have time and can find it online. 90% of the time that just doesn’t find the place, and givss me an entire street to look down.
Lastly, often I want to call these places ahead of time, or look at a menu, get a vague idea how much it costs. Google maps just… has that information right there. Hours, images of food, menus, everything. No one else has that, and complications arise, especially when Duck Duck Go give me the wrong number and I place a pick up order from a place on the wrong side of town.
I want to replace google, but damn it if right now its just the best option and doesn’t screw anything up. There are times when I cannot afford being late or lost and I can’t risk using the other ones.
All that stuff is a lot of expensive data entry and purchasing of live data feeds.
I have no interest in paying for a search engine, but if someone like Kagi did a legit google maps replacement, I would pay.
If all the services suck, you could just not use any of them, like everyone did for literally millions of years. I don’t understand why supporting corporate neofascism is OK if their services are convenient.
very amazing arguments there
the person described their issue and your response amounts to ‘before these services existed people were fine too’. forgetting that as times have changed the different ways to live and access resources have changed. just a few decades ago newpaper information, telephone directories, etc were the way to find this exact information that barely exist if at all in most places now. before that there were travel guides and handbooks. before that travelling posts where u could go and ask. do u think today u can find anyone who’s job is to guide and give out information? no. lets not pretend we have the same world we did before.
im not gonna go into millions of years ago for hopefully obvious reasons
neofascist corporations are controlling basic infrastructure. stop calling it a convenience to use them. one can argue alternatives are better, or quitting these infrastructure is possible. but that is a long, hard, difficult chore for many.
At a certain point you may have to make a sacrifice. You may have to reject convenience, and call the store, or park your car and walk down the block. And while you’re at it you can update the OSM address.
I know it’s not the easiest way and I’m not judging you one bit—I also take the less principled option sometimes. But I can’t even render Google maps on my phone now, and it’s amazing how things just turn out fine when I muddle through.
I come from the 90s for fuck’s sake, before all this. I’m not going to let some power tripping ad platform make me feel helpless.
Spain here… still says Lake Ontario on mine
But I remember when the “Gulf of America” was declared, it still said Gulf of Mexico for a while, after a while it changed it to both names:
Sad state of affairs, but this is google 🤷♂️
Never ever forget this disgusting capitulation. Might legitimately be the worst thing they’ve done, for an audience of one.
There was also the Gulf of Mexico situation. Oh and also when they removed Holocaust Remembrance, Pride, and various Heritage events from Google Calendar like, the week Trump took office. Oh and don’t forget the time they donated millions to Trump’s 2024 campaign, you know, the one after he’d already attempted a coup on the US government and where he was promising mass deportations, attacks on the “enemy from within”, and loads of other lovely stuff like that. Oh and let’s not leave out their participation in the creation of an Orwellian mass surveillance state.
USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.
What a bunch of MAGA losers.
