• CanadianCorhen
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    oh, thats 100% what happened.

    “should we vary what these are called by country?”

    “ehh, that would cost like $10,000 of developer time around the globe, just standardize it”

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      No its the same as the recent Google move of renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, it is not easier, it just appeases trumps new mandates. Open Map systems around the world already include terms for Country/State/Province/territory, etc. Its a tag label in a program field.

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        1 month ago

        Pretty sure this change was from November, but it’s an issue now because of the Cheeto

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          Online articles say people have screenshots from a few days ago as of Provincial and now it says State Park, so even if google did make a back end change before January then the timing is odd for it to be showing changes now.

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              I mean it could be locally cached vs map update being the delay…just timing seems odd

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      So where they called provincial parks before?

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        Some were, some weren’t. This goes back almost to the beginning of Google Maps, but seems they’ve started to standardize them recently. They claim they started before Trump’s inauguration.