The president’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System, which ​sets the standards for official U.S. maps.

Trumps’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which ​sets the standards for official U.S. maps.

Google Maps has changed the name of “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake, according to ​a Google statement.

Trump announced on Thursday that he was changing the name ‌of the smallest of the five Great Lakes, part of an escalating trade feud with Canada that has prompted the two countries to impose reciprocal tariffs on billions of dollars ​in goods.

The president’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which ​sets the standards for official U.S. maps. It does not have ⁠any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the ​world refers to the lake.

    • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Oh, fuck me, it is real

      …Lewis said to Clark, in the cold dark of the deep forest, on yet another relentlessly lonely night… 😉

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        • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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          22 days ago

          And for that you downvoted Ken Burns?

          And while I admit that I totally made that poster (because I make a lot of show and movie posters), that is an absolutely legitimate Ken Burns documentary that very much exists.

            • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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              21 days ago

              I was mostly joking. I don’t think any rational person could survive on the Internet for more than a few minutes if they actually gave a shit about who up or down voted them.