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    329 days ago

    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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      1129 days ago

      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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          629 days ago

          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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        128 days ago

        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.