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It makes perfect sense that govs control names within their jurisdiction - I am eyerolling at both the name change and the reaction. I am curious though - is i

It makes perfect sense that govs control names within their jurisdiction - I am eyerolling at both the name change and the reaction. I am curious though - is it convention to leave the data as is, or is it illegal to modify it? Regardless, itll just be changed back in 2 years; as long as I can type "lake ontario" and get directed to Lake Ontario, I do not care at all what the gov database calls it currently.

sixothree 1mo ago
I wouldn't exactly describe one person as "the government".
- biophysboy 1mo ago
  I mean ... currently I would? The environment will be different soon
- ThoseWhoSquirm 29d ago
  The president is the government as far as assigning or altering place names is concerned, but only for names not established by an act of Congress. That's why Trump was able to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinkley; he was simply reversing an Obama-era executive order. But he couldn't rename Denali National Park because that was established by Congress.
watwut 1mo ago
> I am eyerolling at both the name change and the reaction. Why do you expect meek reaction in a rename like this? What is eye rolling over reacting to this particular rename?
- biophysboy 1mo ago
  Well, because I expect this to last for two years. Nobody likes it except for birthday boy and his sycophants. All of the signs around Lake Ontario still say the name; same goes for the people that live by it. Google should override it but I don’t expect them to, because theyre selfish and suck. Only thing to do is win elections.
ThoseWhoSquirm 29d ago
>I am curious though - is it convention to leave the data as is, or is it illegal to modify it? Given the First Amendment, it's in no way illegal for individuals or corporations to use whatever place names they want. But if yout maps platform is essentially wedded to a government database and is designed entirely around the use of that database, using different place names is much, much more difficult.

sixothree 1mo ago

I wouldn't exactly describe one person as "the government".

biophysboy 1mo ago
I mean ... currently I would? The environment will be different soon
ThoseWhoSquirm 29d ago
The president is the government as far as assigning or altering place names is concerned, but only for names not established by an act of Congress. That's why Trump was able to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinkley; he was simply reversing an Obama-era executive order. But he couldn't rename Denali National Park because that was established by Congress.

watwut 1mo ago

> I am eyerolling at both the name change and the reaction. Why do you expect meek reaction in a rename like this? What is eye rolling over reacting to this particular rename?

biophysboy 1mo ago
Well, because I expect this to last for two years. Nobody likes it except for birthday boy and his sycophants. All of the signs around Lake Ontario still say the name; same goes for the people that live by it. Google should override it but I don’t expect them to, because theyre selfish and suck. Only thing to do is win elections.

ThoseWhoSquirm 29d ago

>I am curious though - is it convention to leave the data as is, or is it illegal to modify it? Given the First Amendment, it's in no way illegal for individuals or corporations to use whatever place names they want. But if yout maps platform is essentially wedded to a government database and is designed entirely around the use of that database, using different place names is much, much more difficult.