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Driving the news: President Trump had reportedly asked Apple to make the switch last week
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It's unclear if Apple took a stance similar to Google, which updated the name for addresses in the United States.
Key facts
- Apple has changed the label on Lake Ontario to " Lake America," according to an Axios review of Apple Maps on Tuesday afternoon
- President Trump had reportedly asked Apple to make the switch last week, Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox Business on Monday
- It's unclear if Apple took a stance similar to Google, which updated the name for addresses in the United States
- Google said it made the switch because the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) had updated its maps, and Google follows those guidelines "to reflect name changes in official government
Summary
Apple has changed the label on Lake Ontario to " Lake America," according to an Axios review of Apple Maps on Tuesday afternoon. Apple is the second major digital map provider to make the switch. President Trump had reportedly asked Apple to make the switch last week, Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox Business on Monday. Apple's decision comes less than a week after the president's executive order to rename the body of water along the U.S.-Canada border. The company also eventually changed the Gulf of Mexico to " Gulf of America " and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley last year when Trump renamed those sites via an executive order on the first day of his second term.