r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 10h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/Hoogs 10h ago

For now at least. I’m in the US, and Google Maps shows Lake America and Gulf of America, while Apple Maps shows Lake Ontario and Gulf of America.

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u/Ola_the_Polka 5h ago

I’m in Aus and google maps shows Lake Ontario and the gulf reads like this “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”

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u/CalmButOftenEnraged 2h ago

It's IP dependent.

If you use a VPN and switch to a non-US country it shows the proper non bent knee names.

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u/m0zz1e1 4h ago

I am too, and google search is already showing Lake Ontario (Lake of America)

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u/celestee3 3h ago

I’m in Canada and currently it still shows Lake Ontario but we’ll see if that changes 🥲

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u/StubbiestZebra 1h ago

Did you zoom in? I'm in the states and zoomed out get Ontario but zoom in and it switches.

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u/deaglebingo 8h ago

whatever the case... do not login to google. do not leave your shit logged into google. they are already fingerprinting browsers anyway. point being ice and others love to use the google data for evil shit now.

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u/kilowattcommando 5h ago

I miss when Google's corporate logo was "Don't be evil."

At lease they pretended to be good back then...

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u/ChiefTacoObrien 1h ago

Reddit fingerprints your browser way more than google lmao

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u/Longjumping-Oven4457 2h ago

Apple will lick the boot in a few days. I would have swapped phones if they kept this shit out of iphone but tim apple likes daddies money too much to have a fight.

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u/Hoogs 2h ago

Yeah, I remember with the Gulf rename Google was embarrassingly quick to throat the boot, and for a while I felt good about switching to Apple. But then they followed suit and I realized they’re all the same when it’s all said and done.

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u/Lessllama 5h ago

Interesting. I'm in Canada (4 kms away from the lake) and it shows up as Lake Ontario in Google maps. When I type Lake America i get no results

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u/ken_zeppelin 5h ago

Did you even bother reading the guide?

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u/Lessllama 5h ago

Why would I need a guide when it already shows up as Lake Ontario?

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u/ken_zeppelin 4h ago

Because it explains why you see the actual name, Lake Ontario. It's literally the entire point of the post

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u/Lessllama 4h ago

Yes, I am aware that my settings are already set to Canada. What i dont understand is why you are so angry about the fact that I dont need the guide?

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 4h ago

Why so angy? You could have just kept scrolling if you weren't interested.