Google relabling Canadian parks as 'state parks'
Google relabling Canadian parks as 'state parks'
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‘An attack on our Canadian identity’: Google Maps users report provincial parks mislabelled as ‘state’ parks
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Canada really needs to develop its technology to get off of oppressive American tech. We need to work with other countries and develop our own tech to combat this. Absolutely insulting. Just a little “oopsie” after over a decade of not having mislabelled parks? The stink is showing.
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Open source options exist. We just need more people using OpenStreetMaps and shit.
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A government funded utility that utilizes regional GIS and aerial mapping would go a long way. Google's got the upper hand on directions and traffic reporting though, so that would take more time to make effective. A lot of that is genuinely due to the number of users that exist on the platform though. I think if you tried to implement similar location data analysis for government infrastructure, people would be up in arms at the idea, despite being perfectly happy to provide the same data to Google.
It's unfortunate that Google is as prevalent a default service as they are, but it's hard to ignore how good a service they offer, and how long the development period has been to get them there.
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The geodata and related open source technology to edit, review, and host it is already available from openstreetmap community
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We have. Only it’s not well known, because of Google’s monopoly.
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Then let’s start naming them and putting them out there. If they’re just maps but we need guis for apps on these, then it’s a great time to start that process and get developers in on it, preferably open sourced if possible.
My guess is there would be lots of developers willing to work on a project like this to help distance us from America.
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Every canadian should switch to Organic Maps for national security purposes.
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It will prompt you to use Google's Maps or any other map program you have installed when you clock on an address. You may have to reset the default program for map links if you had more than one option and chose Google Maps as the option in the past, though.
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If people are wondering why Google is simping to Trump, they have been convicted of being a monopoly and the antitrust action is now in the penalty phase.
The action started under Trump I, was vigorously pursued by Biden's Lena Kahn and the conviction secured. Now all that's left is to decide the penalty, which could range from a strongly written letter to a breakup of the company.
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It is really to bad Canada is not going after them yet.
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I'm getting Microsoft, Clinton & Bush vibes here...
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from "Not Evil" to "Prime Evil" in just a couple decades.
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Jesus fucking Christ already!
The orange butt plug and fElon need to keep their fucking hands off Canada.
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Can you please go burn down the White House again?
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I mean I knew Americans weren't great at geography, I didn't realize it was this bad.
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Just label the US as South/Lesser Canada.
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The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it...
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I'm not seeing this at all.
Provincial Parks in BC are all still called 'xyz provincial park'.
If you explicitly search for 'state park' all the provincial ones come up, but there's nothing in any of their details mentioning 'state' in anyway.
/edit: found it.
It's subtle, but it's there.
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Example:
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Just checked and sure enough, nearby provincial parks are labelled 'State Park'
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I wouldn't be surprised if the orange utan asked Google to "make a mistake" on purpose, to float the idea and see what would happen.
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We have quite a lot of geology.
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They show up as provincial parks for me?
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Some of them are listed as state when you bring up their card.
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May as well start calling temples "churches" and change all speed limits to Mph since it seems we're in a "being wrong" contest.
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The app is showing provincial and national for me. I'm in NS and have a few around the city and they aren't mislabeled from what I see.🤷🏻♂️
Either I'm the odd one out or they changed it back.Edit: found one, how have you been reporting this?
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Time to update your community on Open Street Map and start using Street Complete so people around you can switch to Open Street Map apps. All it takes is a couple active editors to make a town viable.
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What?
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Just says Park for me?
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What I don't get is some are labeled park and some state parks.
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Came here to talk about this as well.
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Just the provincial parks? I was about to get out the pitchforks, but if it doesn't include national parks that seems unrelated to the drama.
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They're done this globally apparently. They just got rid of the provincial park option and defaults all government operated nature reserves, of any government, as "state parks".
Seems very shortsighted and with a disregard for other countries. Extremely confusing move by google.
yea, 'state park', as in 'operated by the state'
I can see why they did this, but its really stupid, especially at a time like this. i've reported half a dozen parks.
But "the state" at issue here would be Canada. A provincial park isn't a state park since we have national parks too and they're separate entities.
There was no reason to do this other than stay out of Trumps retaliation zone. It is wrong to say operated by the state when it is operated by the province.
Yep. Its not technically wrong to call them state parks, but still fuck'em that is our PROVINCIAL park.
Maybe a small cultural hill we are on right now but we give us enough of these hills and suddenly we lose any semblance of cultural uniqueness.
The problem is that for us there is a big difference between municipally run, province-run, and federally run parks. We also have private parks, privately owned but publically accessible parks, and of course, amusement parks.
Odd, I just looked up a famous national park in the UK and it's listed as 'National Park'
For me, using English (GB) as localization, they appear as national parks. Maybe it's the term they use for English (US) set phones 🤔 Im located in Finland as well so.
Even the ones in US show up as national for me. Also checked the gulf of mexico, it's still that for me.
That would make sense if we used English (US), but we use English (CA). Just a brief check of the parks in my area shows all the national parks are labeled "National Park", the provincial parks are almost all "State Park[s]" with the occasional "Park", and the regional parks have no consistent or logical pattern but I counted at least 5 different park labels.