technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGoogle Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US governmentarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1660arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1650arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US governmentarstechnica.comtechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square102fedilinkfile-text
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
minus-squarecolonelp4nic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·1 month agoI keep seeing this around. I’ve got friends at Google who have shared screenshots about the manual pull request (code change) that was made to update the name. They even have an internal shortlink pointing to that manual change since it’s so dumb
minus-squarechaospatterns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWhy is a lake name stored in code versus a database?
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI think they must mean an override to the name in the db?
I keep seeing this around. I’ve got friends at Google who have shared screenshots about the manual pull request (code change) that was made to update the name. They even have an internal shortlink pointing to that manual change since it’s so dumb
Why is a lake name stored in code versus a database?
I think they must mean an override to the name in the db?