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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by Retric on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:09PM (#17673231)
Who else should make that decision?

Agents will arbitrarily change maps basted on what their current listing are and would happily change them daily. Longer term there is little point changing place names as changing demographics will eventually adjust the meaning of these names even if no lines move on a map.

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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by Spivak on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:13PM (#17675062)
Nobody/Everybody, if people start calling a region by a name it makes sense to record the usage and put it on the map. Sure, it probably makes perfections and planners twitch but it makes maps more useful.
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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by extralego on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:48PM (#17675740)
I notice a lot of Americans love referring to Canada as “Canadia”. I can’t make a bit of sense out of it, but by your logic we should update the maps already.
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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by daveFNbuck on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:45PM (#17676094)
That's how we do it for Japan and Germany.
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Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume by bigiain on Thursday August 02, 2018 @07:27PM (#17676291)
I'd live with that plan, so long as the people with personal profit motives don't automatically end up with way more voice that local residents.
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