2026-08-30 13:59 UTC
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online In the UK it still shown as Lake Ontario in Google Maps
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca 2026-08-30 15:17
@StevenNT@mastodonapp.uk @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online I have confirmed the same in Japan through a friend
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@csolisr@hub.azkware.net 2026-08-30 19:06
Google follows a predictable pattern whenever there is a legal conflict between maps: appease each country's legal claims when browsed from within each country, then show as a territory in dispute when browsed from anywhere else. They already do so with Crimea (Ukrainian for Ukraine, Russian for Russia, disputed elsewhere), the Gulf of Mexico/America (America from the US, Mexico from Mexico, both for the rest of the world), and now the Lake Ontario/America (same as above).