{"id":14904,"date":"2026-08-31T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:52:09","slug":"google-maps-changes-lake-ontario-label-to-lake-america-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14904","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps changes Lake Ontario label to Lake America in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2291741150-e1788114179268.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Maps relabeled Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d for users in the US, Alphabet Inc. announced, after President Donald Trump said he would rename the lake amid a trade spat with Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was prompted by a change in the official US government geographic naming system, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lake is one of the Great Lakes and spans the border between the two countries. Trump clashed with New York Governor Kathy Hochul after she said that\u00a0New York state wouldn\u2019t use the new name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users in Canada will continue to see the body of water labeled as Lake Ontario, while the rest of the world will see both names displayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country,\u201d Alphabet said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MapQuest will not change the name in its products, the platform wrote in a\u00a0social media post. Apple Maps is currently displaying the body of water to US users as Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump last year ordered the Gulf of Mexico renamed to Gulf of America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortune Daily breaks the traditional barrier between audience and newsroom. The show transforms Fortune\u2019s trusted reporting into actionable, conversational, and entertaining insights for an emerging class of business leaders. Watch here.<br \/>\n<br \/>#Google #Maps #Lake #Ontario #label #Lake #America #U.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps relabeled Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d for users in the US, Alphabet Inc&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[245],"tags":[425,3342,881,11738,2892,10857,20405,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}