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The executive orders are ridiculous/childish/whatever-you-call-this. That aside, if they have any legal effect, I’d expect a map company to call a feature by it

The executive orders are ridiculous/childish/whatever-you-call-this. That aside, if they have any legal effect, I’d expect a map company to call a feature by its legal name. Should a rendering of the land bordering the Southwest corner of the Black Sea show the city of Istanbul? Or must it remain depicted as Constantinople? Or perhaps even Byzantium?

iAMkenough 23d ago
Technically the border goes through the middle of the lake, and each side has their own legal name. Is it legally one lake with two names, or two lakes with one name? What should customers in neither country see displayed? What if the federal government renames New Mexico to New America, but the state government refuses?
- bdavisx 23d ago
  >each side has their own legal name. I think there's some question as to whether the President can just rename things with an EO - what's the legal name of that lake right now from a US standpoint - there isn't a 100% answer for that.
- CodeWriter23 23d ago
  It's one lake.
- sryryrdhd 23d ago
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- FloorEgg 23d ago
  It's incredibly common for different countries that share geographic features to have different names for the same geographic feature. The English channel / the sleeve (france) The Baltic sea / East Sea (Germany) / west sea (estonia) Rivers, mountain ranges, etc. So for these companies to label a lake different things in different countries is trivial and business as usual. Likewise geopolitical tensions, renaming, borders moving, etc all have precedent. So while the actual renaming of this lake is novel from a geopolitical standpoint (Canada and US relations) it isn't novel for Google or Apple to make a change like this.
- tekla 22d ago
  Why is this so difficult to understand? Different countries can have different names for the same geographical feature. People want to be angry about this even if really doesn't matter, so they get into hysterics about how "is it really two lakes with one name" brain rot. Do you think South Korea calls the Sea of Japan that?
happytoexplain 23d ago
There's a line. It's pointless to pretend "legality === nobody is allowed to disrespect you for complying". Regardless of which side of the line you land on, this is a fundamental truth. "They're just using its legal name" is a dishonest use of the word "just".

iAMkenough 23d ago

Technically the border goes through the middle of the lake, and each side has their own legal name. Is it legally one lake with two names, or two lakes with one name? What should customers in neither country see displayed? What if the federal government renames New Mexico to New America, but the state government refuses?

bdavisx 23d ago
>each side has their own legal name. I think there's some question as to whether the President can just rename things with an EO - what's the legal name of that lake right now from a US standpoint - there isn't a 100% answer for that.
CodeWriter23 23d ago
It's one lake.
sryryrdhd 23d ago
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FloorEgg 23d ago
It's incredibly common for different countries that share geographic features to have different names for the same geographic feature. The English channel / the sleeve (france) The Baltic sea / East Sea (Germany) / west sea (estonia) Rivers, mountain ranges, etc. So for these companies to label a lake different things in different countries is trivial and business as usual. Likewise geopolitical tensions, renaming, borders moving, etc all have precedent. So while the actual renaming of this lake is novel from a geopolitical standpoint (Canada and US relations) it isn't novel for Google or Apple to make a change like this.
tekla 22d ago
Why is this so difficult to understand? Different countries can have different names for the same geographical feature. People want to be angry about this even if really doesn't matter, so they get into hysterics about how "is it really two lakes with one name" brain rot. Do you think South Korea calls the Sea of Japan that?

happytoexplain 23d ago

There's a line. It's pointless to pretend "legality === nobody is allowed to disrespect you for complying". Regardless of which side of the line you land on, this is a fundamental truth. "They're just using its legal name" is a dishonest use of the word "just".