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Users in the United States will see the new label, following President Trump’s executive order last week. Google has updated its Maps application, labeling Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States, following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. The decision of the tech giant reflects what it did when Mr. Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America last year. The change has started to be rolled out, Google said in a blog post , adding that it was following its practice of using the name given by the U.S.
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Geographic Names Information System . “People using Maps in the U.S. will see “Lake America,” those in Canada will continue to see “Lake Ontario,” and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,” Google said in its statement.
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