Google relabling Canadian parks as 'state parks'
Google relabling Canadian parks as 'state parks'
Some Google Maps users in Canada are claiming provincial parks have been labelled as 'state' parks.
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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.
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.
My theory is that some asshole at google thought it was soo much to keep track of what every government globally calls their government operated parks and nature reserves, and just wanted a blanket term for it and went for "state park", with no consideration for how itd piss most countries off.
Bullshit. The fact it is happening now is no mistake.
Yep. Trump's trying to ramp up support for the Canadian Anschluss and there are no more coincidences
Cultural colonialism
I can't tell whats more annoying: if they did it out of malice or indifference.
Either way, the cultural homogenizing effects of mass social media is a mistake and must be fought against. Countries that primarily speak English are at the greatest threat of this. If I had a magic genie I'd wish that Canadian's native language was anything other than English so people's minds wouldn't be so easily poisoned by all the dumb bullshit media the US produces. There are genuinely people in Canada who believe they have Second Amendment rights.
I've been saying this lately, but Canada as a whole needs to emulate what Quebec is doing to protect its cultural identity. Limit American media coming into the country. Defend and cultivate our unique cultural identity at all costs.
Anyone that says Canada is not distinguished culturally from America is ignorant. I am a dual citizen who has lived in and loved both countries. Just because we are neighbours, mostly white, and speak the same language, does not make us identical. We have a different social fabric. The biggest difference is that America is a extremely individualistic society, and Canadians are a collective society. I'd call us socialist, but that word immediately turns off the listening ears of Americans as they have been programmed since McCarthy to reject socialism in all forms -- even though America has dozens of socialist programs such as social security and food stamps. To explain socialist concepts to Americans you have to use synonyms. It's like feeding a dog a pill covered in fucking peanut butter. Gotta "trick" them to help them because they just don't understand otherwise. I don't wanna trick anybody I just wanna help but stupid fucking billionaires got these idiots convinced socialist concepts are gonna destroy the country. Oh no! We made your medications cheaper and allowed you to unionize so you can get better wages and job security! So evil! I swear, if you changed "Union Dues" to "Employment Insurance" they'd be all aboard.
Anyone that says Canada is not distinguished culturally from America is ignorant.
This one struck me particularly delightfully because i've been getting into Letterkenny of all things and you very clearly do. Hell i can see that as an aussie,
Should add, that probably sounded incredibly puerile, but most of our english-speaking country media is still dominated by the uk and US (although NZ is making inroads) We don't get much Canadian stuff down here, the last big one was due south and that was very pastiche.
What @[email protected] said before me, but also, try out Corner Gas. It's family safe and also hilarious. It's been credited with introducing other Canadians to Saskatchewan culture since 2004.
Family safe is not a concern, but keep the recs coming
I love me some Letterkenny. While it is a comedy, it really does an excellent job at highlighting what being Canadian means. I really need to watch the spin off, Shoresy.
If you're interested in more media that helps you understand what being Canadian is all about, I'd recommend listening to some of the most iconic Canadians musicians of all time: Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, The Tragically Hip, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and The Band. You've almost certainly heard their songs before, but listen to some of their less popular music.
Here's some specific songs that I am fond of, and feel highlight Common Canadian Sensibilities:
- King Harvest (Has Surely Come) by The Band
- Dance me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen
- In View by The Tragically Hip
- Bobcaygeon by The Tragically Hip
- Signs by Five Man Electrical Band
- Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot
- If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot
- Illegal by Corbeau
- Universal Soldier by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Til I Am Myself Again by Blue Rodeo
- (You're A) Strange Animal by Gowan
- The Rest of My Life by Sloan
- Money City Maniacs by Sloan
- The Consumer by Stompin' Tom Connors
- Helpless by Neil Young
- Heart of Gold by Neil Young
- Life Is A Highway by Tom Cochrane
- American Psycho by Treble Charger
- Truth Doesn't Live in a Book by Ben Chaplan
- The Night Pat Murphy Died by Great Big Sea
These showcase a variety of genres and locations within Canada. We are a big country with such a beautiful mixture of experiences that allow for such wonderful music to be produced.
Actually due south gatewayed me into canadian music back in the 90's, so I'm good there :)
It's actually pretty fascinating because apart from the obvious differences there are a lot of common thematics with Australia that we don't share with the US - and a lot of that does have to do with the more social oriented societies as opposed to US individualism.
Well that and the massive emphasis on maritime activities
america's culture is consumerism, fanatical loyalty to products, and sports.
oh and obsession with violence
I doubt it, its the same issue with google changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America recently. Its a USA thing, all other mapping systems still have it as Gulf of Mexico because they aren't bowing to trump and elon. A state and a province are not the same, provinces have less autonomy than a state.
All? Sorry Apple is doing the same.
Sorry I meant all other country/regiinal mapping systems, Non USA
oh, thats 100% what happened.
"should we vary what these are called by country?"
"ehh, that would cost like $10,000 of developer time around the globe, just standardize it"
No its the same as the recent Google move of renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, it is not easier, it just appeases trumps new mandates. Open Map systems around the world already include terms for Country/State/Province/territory, etc. Its a tag label in a program field.
Pretty sure this change was from November, but it's an issue now because of the Cheeto
Online articles say people have screenshots from a few days ago as of Provincial and now it says State Park, so even if google did make a back end change before January then the timing is odd for it to be showing changes now.
ok, i havnt seen that.
I mean it could be locally cached vs map update being the delay...just timing seems odd
So where they called provincial parks before?
Some were, some weren't. This goes back almost to the beginning of Google Maps, but seems they've started to standardize them recently. They claim they started before Trump's inauguration.
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.
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.
It is wrong as the state would be national government. So these parks are run by the provinces and not the state of Canada.
Oh, 100% agree.
I'm just saying I understand WHAT they were trying to do, even if it stepped on a cultural landmine. As I said, Ive reported about a dozen parks now myself.
half a dozen
Fucking Casual. :-P
I fully expect they're gonna close my google account based on the amount of work some poor underpaid kid now has to do. I think I got every park in my province - already a herculean feat - and the one next door. It's a lotta parks. I'm a little crazy.
You are doing great patriotic work, I wish I had the drive to do that. Instead I am writing daily letters to the MLAs and premier of Saskatchewan. And cancelling services offered by US companies.
ooh, hope you did BC too
I keep adding to it, a couple here, a couple there.
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.
Odd, I just looked up a famous national park in the UK and it's listed as 'National Park'
Yeah, it's the regional (sub-National) parks affected.
I see, we don't have such things over here. Thanks for the explanation.
All the regional parks in my area have completely different labels, it's just the provincial parks that say "State Park".