'Lake America' [Ontario] Change Fuels Surge In Google Maps Alternatives
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https://www.audacy.com/national/news/lake-america-change-fuels-surge-in-google-maps-alternatives <-- shared media article
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91599041/mapquest-not-renaming-lake-ontario-despite-trumps-executive-order <-- shared technical media article
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[Map Quest ~ 50 times its ‘regular usage’, #1 free app on the Apple store (ahead of ChatGPT); I actually can see Apple & Google’s POV - although they should have had backbones IMHO – as a LOT of Federal contracts were on the line (especially when petty vindictiveness comes into it) if they did not follow the executive-order-dictated Board of Geographic Names naming]
“MapQuest - the site where ancient (a.k.a. early 2000s) travelers would find directions to print out - and other map apps have seen a recent resurgence in popularity since President Donald Trump decided to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Within two days of [the] Aug. 27 executive order to change the name of the lake, Google announced that its popular Google Maps app would change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America and noted that the name had changed in the government’s Geographic Names Information System. Apple changed the name in its map app shortly after.
Meanwhile, polls showed that the name change was deeply unpopular with the public. The Economist/YouGov polling of 1,592 U.S. adults from Aug. 28 through Aug. 31 [https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_yVe1kKt.pdf] found that just 17% of participants approved of re-naming the lake [https://www.audacy.com/national/news/poll-lake-america-even-less-popular-than-tariffs]. Reuters/Ipsos poll results released Sept. 1 [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/majority-americans-oppose-trumps-new-canada-tariffs-renaming-lake-ontario-2026-09-01/] found that just 14% of respondents approved of the name change.
According to the Associated Press, Google and Apple’s decisions to re-label Lake Ontario “sparked a backlash among some users, already unhappy with the companies’ decisions to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on their maps following a previous Trump edict.” Users also have concerns about digital privacy and have started looking for map app alternatives.
Google Maps is the ‘dominant player’ in the digital map space with about 80% of the market, according to estimates cited by the AP. After Apple Maps, Waze was listed as the third most popular navigation app in an article from PC World published in August, before the Lake Ontario name change. However, Waze is also owned by Google and displays the Lake America name.
That’s where other alternatives – such as… MapQuest [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapquest.android.ace | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapquest-gps-navigation-maps/id316126557] – come in to play. Of course, users don’t have to print out instructions anymore. MapQuest is now owned by a California-based company called System1…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #TomTom #MapQuest #Citymapper #OrganicMaps #OpenStreetMap #geographicnames #names #cartography #LakeOntario #mappingapps #publicopinion
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