Donald Trump has for Apple another rather unconventional request. The American president was supposed to personally contact the company to Apple Maps changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. The information was confirmed by the American miniInterior Secretary Doug Burgum, according to whom we would make changes in Apple Maps they could wait quite soon. Apple However, he has not yet commented publicly on the matter.
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Trump signed an executive order last week to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in U.S. federal databases. The move comes amid a escalating trade dispute between the United States and Canada, which have slapped billions of dollars in tariffs on each other. Lake Ontario, the smallest of the five Great Lakes, is shared by both the United States and Canada.
Google has already complied with Trump
While Apple Maps at this time they still show the original name Lake Ontario, Google has already made the change. Users Google Maps In the United States, it now appears as Lake America, while in Canada it remains as Lake Ontario. In the rest of the world, Google displays both names simultaneously in the format "Lake Ontario (Lake America)".
Google explains its move by citing a long-standing policy of taking place names from the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which was updated after Trump's executive order. Of course, the US president's decision alone cannot change the official name of the lake used by Canada or other countries.
Pro Apple This would not be a completely new situation. We have already seen a similar scenario in the case of the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump renamed the Gulf of America. Google was the first to update its maps at that time and Apple followed him with some delay. This time, however, the situation is a bit more interesting precisely because, according to Burgum, Trump contacted Apple direct. MiniThe Interior Ministry even stated that he was convinced that the change in Apple Maps See you soon.
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Apple has not yet announced any decision, and Lake Ontario remains on its maps under its original name. However, given the previous case with the Gulf of America, I would not be at all surprised if Apple sononec has taken a similar regional approach to Google. In other words, Americans may soon get Lake America, while we in the Czech Republic could see both names.
