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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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