• John@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    It’s the official GNIS name now, and is usually just piped into the maps. There aren’t people actually deciding which names to use at Google, HERE, whatever, etc … we just push sources in.

    They’re doing it because they want to. Because they know it will make Trump happy.

    sure, ok … guess you know more than my 20+ years experience at a digital map company that actually taught google how to make their maps.

    • Furbag@pawb.social
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      1 day ago

      Google deciding to continue using a dataset that has been completely captured by a megalomaniac at the head of an authoritarian regime is on them. I cannot stress enough that they do not have to use GNIS, as evidenced by all the other map apps that, y’know, don’t.