Disgraceful.
Oops.
Just like that I stopped using their services.
The transition from Google Maps to the MapQuest app was essentially seamless. I’d do it again. 10/10.
Land of the weak, home of the cucked. And you thought only kids could get fucked by a pedo.
tyDon’t step on snek
Yr.no is a nice weather service and it still shows lake ontario for me (though I’m not in the US and leave it on norsk instead of bothering to change to English)
The folks most concerned about such a change are those who live in the US since I’m assuming only we are exposed to this stupidity eg European providers aren’t renaming shit based on a lunatics directives. For us yr.no is hard to adjust to since it supports the english language BUT only uses Celsius. I’m aware metric is superior but at least for me I have to mentally translate from A->B and celsius is used nowhere but in the sciences here. EG its not a great alternative
For me, in the EU, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” and “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”.
google maps will sometimes show different borders depending on where you access it from as well.
Personally I try to use OSM where I can, but streetview can be really useful sometimes.
If only one of those laps would write Lake 'Murica
Ridiculous
Old - HOMES
New - SHAME
If I needed an excuse to drop AccuWeather, it was because of their literal shitty weather predictions.
Sorry but I’m on their side. No private mapping supplier should be able to decide what things are called. Countries publicize official names of things and the private company should always use that. No matter how wrong it is
Congress gets to decide that, not the executive. Ignoring Trump tantrums is following the law.
I don’t know what the law is but there must be an official database of names, and third parties need to follow that. They probably are
Unless there is evidence otherwise, these third parties are doing the right thing.
By all means, object to capricious or illegal name changes. I’m just saying the problem is all in the politics
I don’t know what the law is
That seems clear.
The national whatever for place names calls it Lake America. That’s the official source of data; neither Congress nor the president needs to be involved every single time a place is named (though this time the president decided to be because the president is a moron).
All my homies will hate AccuWeather form now on.
Hell mine already did. They’ve been pushing to dismantle the NWS for years
Accuweather probably did this gleefully.
But seriously, they cannot be their own map provider, right, That makes no sense. Probably what happened is the map provider finally did it.
If they’re based in the US, they have to.
The rest of the world doesn’t give a fuck about US executive order, so obviously life goes on and the places aren’t name changed in the real world.
EOs aren’t laws or rules.
Executive orders do not apply to private companies. They apply to only the executive branch of the federal government - that’s why they’re called executive orders.
AccuWeather is choosing to be on Trump’s side.
That’s not exactly correct… They’re called executive orders because they come from the executive branch, not because they only apply to the executive branch.
Executive orders primarily direct the executive branch, but they can also impose legally binding obligations on private companies when supported by constitutional or statutory authority.
Now, is this executive order specifically legally binding and supported by the constitution, lol no, it only applies to what the government has to call it. The companies are sucking his dick and showing their true colors.
Helpful to know your enemies, but completely harmless in and of itself. Recent estimates say the US can absorb seven more waves of Iranian attacks before they completely run out of interceptors, and interceptors ordered today won’t be delivered until 2029… Americans don’t realize just how badly Iran defeated them, and it’s why he’s openly contemplating using nukes, renaming a lake is a desperate attempt to distract from that.
Trump tried to appoint the former owner of AccuWeather to run NWS in the first term. They were always on his side. They are also the reason the NWS site looks like it’s from 2006.
Yeah but the NWS site works great like that. It’s a little hard to navigate, but that’s not a style problem.
Isn’t accuweather owned by climate change deniers?
InaccuWeather
Jackasses
So brave
