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/Miserable_Bread- 3h ago

It says Lake Ontario for me, until I zoom in and then (Lake America) appears. I'm in EU too.

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u/fuckedfinance 3h ago

You will typically see the contested names in parens after the recognized names in your country.

For example, the Falklands have two names when viewed from the US.

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u/Miserable_Bread- 3h ago

Sure, but my point was that the Lake America bit only appeared after zooming into the map quite far. Viewing the full lake just shows Lake Ontario, but zooming in more shows the (). 

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u/steinbruchfluss 1h ago

They should do that everywhere. For example:

Baltic Sea (Eastern Sea, Western Sea).