MapQuest stood up to President Donald Trump, and now its app is reaping the rewards.
The “OG of online mapping,” as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuest’s mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Store’s Top Charts for apps (not including games) as of Monday morning on the U.S. east coast.
MapQuest also reached the No. 8 position overall in the U.S. App Store across both apps and games, and it became the No. 1 Navigation app in the United States.
USA is not a Democracy when one man (President) can decide how something will be named. It seems that President have unlimited power, he can do whatever he want, manipulate markets in a most corruptive way, incarcerate who ever he want, bomb and kill at his will.
“fuck up in X, try ro change the topic by doing/saying outrageously stupid shit” has been a recurring theme and favourite strategy of dictators world-wide.
I know this is just a diversion from Epstein and the Iran war but I am curious, what is the proper procedure in the US for geophical name changes, I doubt it is executive orders, according to the law those executive orders by themselves don’t do anything in this regard, do they?
Just checked Waze, and they are still showing Lake Ontario.
Waze is Google. The change is coming.
Waze? Ew.
You know that’s Israeli tech that shares data with Palantir right?
Thank you
Since america now calls it Lake america we can nickname it Lac inférieure.
I’ve been happy with Organic Maps
Isn’t it over now? Did you mean CoMaps?
I don’t think he knows about CoMaps pip.
OpenStreetMap also has it as Lake Ontario:
They also have navigation called OSMAnd.
It’s actually more interesting than this. Open Street Map has a long history of supporting multiple names for the same place. There seems to have been a bit of an edit war since the executive order was issued, but as of now we have
<tag k="name" v="Lake Ontario"/>and<tag k="official_name:en-US" v="Lake America"/>. There are also 36 other name tags, mostly listing the name of the lake in different languages. I initially assumed that all those others were added in the last couple of days as a way to sort of protest by taking the whole thing to an absurd level. But the change log actually shows that 27 of them were already in the tags long before the executive order was issued. And honestly, I like it this way better. Instead of making Trumps announcement big to the point of absurdity, OSM has made it small to the point of inconsequence. Trump said he wanted to change the name of the lake, and OSM said “sure, whatever, your name for it can be number 28 on the list of names that people have for it. And actually, while we’re on the topic, it looks like we missed a few. Lets throw on 8 more to make sure everyone is represented.”Is OsmAnd legit? It’s not from OSM directly from what I recall
Worst product name ever.
Also, crappy app too. I appreciate that they are trying, but it has been crap for years.
Tried it again a few months ago. The spoken navigation wounded like it just huffed a can of butane. Real low, slow and fucked up sounding.
yes, good app
Thanks for sharing!
And the Persian Lake is still Persian.
Canada should rename Lake Superior to Lake Obama, “because Obama is Superior”.
Just call it Lake Obama is Superior
Mapquest still exists? Encarta it!
Yeah right. Going to get that AOL disc that came with PCGamer and check if I’ve got mail next.
Trump is such a sore loser.
An executive order is just that an order towards the employees of his executive. It is neither law nor has it necessarily any relevance for anyone outside of the US administration and it sure as hell has no significance outside of the sovereign borders of the USA.
Not a single idea or policy or point of view espoused by MAGA is genuinely popular. It’s all bots, bullshit, and voter suppression.
Gonna download it now to boost their numbers
Downloaded and installed. I don’t even use it. In fact I will replace Gmaps with it.
Fuck the clown brigade, and fuck ALL the Vichy collaborators!
