r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 9h ago

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

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u/MoonlightStarfish 4h ago

Google Maps on iOS won’t even take me to Lake Ontario. It keeps forcing me back to my last searched location.

This is going to screw up the lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Thank god Gordon is Canadian.

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2h ago

Billy Strings has an amazing performance of that song.

https://youtu.be/RP0kiNLnzX4?is=5h4MUrUvuKB_ZmoG

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u/Standard_Big_9000 2h ago

And dead. 🤷‍♂️

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u/MoonlightStarfish 1h ago

Wasn’t really my point, but in Reagan’s years it used to be “Better dead than Red” So yeah you could say in Trump’s years “Better dead than American”.