This is just for Americans. From Americans. Americans are complaining. They are literally allowed to vote against this kind of behaviour.
On the Google article it was Google’s fault, on the Apple article it’s Apple’s fault. These are American companies run by American billionaires following American rules.
I feel like maybe the problem here is not Lake America, but America
Which federal or state law in the US commands them to rename Lake Ontario again? Please elaborate.
I suspect they use the official data source for place names for the US. Changing that would be extra work
Please start by understanding that corporations have more power in the US than voters.
Yeah please read into the oil and gas industry. They covered up leaded gasoline.
I think you skipped past the whole “billionaires” part in your hurry to blame an entire country. This is just more class warfare
These are American companies run by American billionaires following American rules.
No, they’re not “American rules,” and they’re under zero obligation to comply
Epstein
Use CoMaps folks. FOSS, offline, and supports privacy (which is why it is an offshoot of Organic Maps)
What is wrong with organic maps?
Organic Maps itself is fine (which is what CoMaps is based from), the issue is the shareholders making money and not beimg transparent with the revenue.
From CoMaps themselves
CoMaps started to address the concerns and dissatisfaction within the Organic Maps community regarding governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. The goal is to build a truly community-driven, transparent, and not-for-profit navigation app.
Great info, thank you!
I like my maps with GMOs
Traffic calculation?
Apple gave the president a gold iPhone. Surprised?
They really seem to want to shake me out as a customer. The union busting, the trump asslicking, and now this.
Well, happy to oblige. Already replaced my macbook air with a pallet unit lifebook, and have my sight on the new framework laptops for the trackpad haptics and general principle of serviceability, even at the premium. I was an apple customer, I was always willing to pay for the premium to get a more consistent, robust quality experience. Framework really saw the writing on the wall, and I love it. Finally there are starting to be actually valid options for running Linux with the qol of apple hardware besides asahi.
On phone frontier I have zero clue where to go, but this is really just sealing the deal of me dropping apple there too whenever this one breaks. Motorola seems promising though, we’ll see…
Man I love my Fairphone. I think it’s worth considering based on what I read of your ethics and tech proficiency
Yeah that’s a big one on the list definitely, thanks!
Ive got a Motorola Edge 2022 and the phone in general I have no gripes with. The battery could be a lot better with this model. Looking forward to new phone with Graphene if they actually do that right.
Same. I was feeling them out for the next gen, seeing if they were going to stick to this “privacy” tagline they keep banging on about but this isn’t a good sign.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Surprise! The same company who bribed Trump with a bar of fucking gold. Fuck all big tech in the USA. They are a danger to humanity.
I hope they get inundated with “reports” of an incorrect name. I mean they’ll ignore them but still…
John Apple
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Diaperseed
Johnny Dickweed.
Johnny Crappledeed.
Cuz of his crappy deeds, if you’ll pardon my French.
I mean, that was kinda inevitable to be honest. Apple went with Gulf of America, now they’re going with Lake America. If Trump decided to rename Canada into America+ they’d probably go with it as well.
I’m much more interested in what having a hardware guy as their CEO will do to their products. Obviously he’s just as much of an AI sheep as anyone else in Silicon Valley right now but maybe at least we’ll get some interesting new hardware as well?
Eh. It should just keep its original name.
The whole thing kinda reminds me of Uluru, that still officially has both names… What did native americans call the Gulf of Mexico?
John Appleseedless
John Crabapple
I’ve been using OsmAnd (uses OpenStreetMaps) on my iPhone and it’s been pretty great. Uninstalled Apple Maps so I don’t have to deal with this bullshit.
I’m always for more OSM usage especially as a (casual) OSM mapper but you’re a rube.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310
Why are they a rube?
Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.
Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already),
official_name:en-US=*should be added/changed toLake America, butname=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).Note: emphasis is mine
I think you should look up the definition of “rube”.
That spineless fucker. John apple is already fucking it up
They lost their mojo when Steve Apple passed away.
100%
Not a good start.
MapQuest app works perfectly fine. Just switched easy as pie.
Obligatory mention of CoMaps. Open source, as free, etc.
And same maps because they both use open street maps.
