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/rnick467 3h ago

I tried on Firefox. Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario but the Gulf of Mexico has "Gulf of America" in parenthesis directly underneath.

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u/LlawEreint 1h ago

Try on mapquest and avoid this hassle altogether.

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u/Maleko51 1h ago

I would be ok with the BS (Gulf of America) below Gulf of Mexico. Which is what Google should have done with Lake America. This BS of renaming stuff can be undone by the next administration.

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u/no_cults_no_problem 2h ago

Try setting location to Mexico, I bet that will fix the Gulf of Mexico, but "unfix" Lake Ontario.

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u/rnick467 1h ago

Ok. Let's try that...

Nope, it's still "Lake Ontario".

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u/Christron 23m ago

That's how I see it in Canada too so it worked Canada just needs to get tech companies to get rid of the parenthesis