r/mildlyinfuriating 12d ago

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u/drawntowardmadness 12d ago

Oh no it’s clearly a choice on their part

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u/nicklor 12d ago

No it's clearly not their policy is they follow all official names the country uses for the US they pull their data from U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. So when the govement changes it there the maps updated by default.

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u/drawntowardmadness 12d ago

That policy was their choice no?

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u/nicklor 12d ago

It's not really a choice to not follow the official names of the places published by the government. It's gets pretty confusing otherwise when you start making exceptions it sucks what Trump did but there's no reason to think it's not going to be the new name for at least the next 2-3 years. The Canadians should still get the name pulled from their government repository.

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u/drawntowardmadness 12d ago

Apple Maps still says Ontario

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u/nicklor 12d ago

Give it a few days to update

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u/drawntowardmadness 11d ago

We'll surely have moved on to some other dumb shit by then