technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoGoogle Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US governmentarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US governmentarstechnica.comtechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square49linkfedilinkfile-text
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
minus-squarecolonelp4nic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 hours agoI keep seeing this around. I’ve got friends at Google who have shared screenshots about the manual pull request (code change) that was made to update the name. They even have an internal shortlink pointing to that manual change since it’s so dumb
minus-squarechaospatterns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 hours agoWhy is a lake name stored in code versus a database?
I keep seeing this around. I’ve got friends at Google who have shared screenshots about the manual pull request (code change) that was made to update the name. They even have an internal shortlink pointing to that manual change since it’s so dumb
Why is a lake name stored in code versus a database?