As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume

Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by bcoates on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:21AM (#17671177)

Heroically buried lede 80% of the way down:

The East Cut name originated from a neighborhood nonprofit group in San Francisco that residents voted to create in 2015 to clean and secure the area. The nonprofit paid $68,000 to a “brand experience design company” to rebrand the district. [...] and one of the East Cut nonprofit’s board members is a Google employee.

Inverted pyramid is for those other newspapers I guess

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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by dilap on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:55AM (#17671379)

Yeah, the top half of the article is all-but-lying to you, strongly implying that Google just created the name out of mid-air. Which is typical newspaper/NYT behavior.

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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by oldManRiver on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:19AM (#17672103)

I worked in the "east cut" apparently. Outside of the Leaning Tower of San Francisco I don't remember a lot of people living in the area. Maybe they were farther south.

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