Any Canadian business that uses embedded Google Maps maps had better reconsider that right now.

[misty@digipres.club]

@mcc Could you imagine! Depending on US services? Well they’re elbows up surely

[vanalope@timeloop.cafe]

@misty Not just Canadian businesses.... I have a cottage bakery business and am located just south of Lake Ontario in the Rochester area.

Just removed the embedded Google map on my bakery web page. Fuck this boot licking shit.

[markgrieveson@mindly.social]

@misty

I use OpenStreetMap (OsmAnd~ on Android or LineageOS phones), and it still lists it as Lake Ontario.

A search for "Lake America" brought the following:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/43.735/-78.948

#openstreetmap #LakeAmerica #LakeOntario #opensource

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@markgrieveson Mapquest had a really funny online app that let you rename Lake Ontario to anything you wanted.

(And yes it's still Lake Ontario on Mapquest.)

https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario

@misty

[marius_gs@mastodon.social]

@misty

Hydro One, is the division of Ontario Hydro that provides electricity to Ontario' rural areas. As of this morning, Lake Ontario had been replaced with Lake America on its power outage map. This afternoon they acknowledged this and blamed third party map providers for the change.

[jdgeoshack@social.vivaldi.net]

@misty #boycottgoogle #elbowsup

[psoul@sfba.social]

@misty just did some quick googling (I know the irony…) here is how to embed a map from OpenStreetMap on a website.

https://medium.com/@nargessmi87/how-to-embede-open-street-map-in-a-webpage-like-google-maps-8968fdad7fe4

[johnlockyer@mastodon.social]

@misty BOYCOTT Google maps

[momo@social.linux.pizza]

@misty
There are alternatives in place like OpenStreetMaps, which I'm obviously too stupid to use, because earlier I checked if they renamed Lake Ontario and ended up at watching the wrong lake...

Lake Ontario in OSM is still Lake Onrario.

[jeridansky@sfba.social]

@Vanalope Good move!