Jesus fucking Christ already!
The orange butt plug and fElon need to keep their fucking hands off Canada.
What’s the issue here? Are they not State parks?
We don’t have states. They would be provincial, territorial or national.
Do you know the definition of State? The government of Canada is a sovereign State.
Ask yourself “why is Google doing this now?”, “who asked for this change?” and “what does Google gain from this change?”.
Don’t be obtuse.
Seriously, that’s not how that works, and it’s not how Canada has them listed.
State parks in a country with no states?
Your country is a State
But these parks are run by the provinces, not the Canadian government. The only parks in Canada that could be called “state parks” would be those run by Parks Canada.
Fucking chud. Stop being an ignorant pedant.
It’s not. Never was, never will.
you misunderstood what they meant.
all countries are states. a state is an entity, some states band together into a federation of some sort. some are unitary, some are not. unitary means the same laws apply in all places, others have regional autonomy.
canada is a state, with subdivisions that it calls provinces america is a state, with subidivisions that it calls states russia is a mafia pretending to be a state, that has oblasts and others
That comment was “we aren’t going to become the 51st”
Someone doesn’t know English. Or are you saying that you dont have sovereignty?
You know what you said, we know what your goal is. Let’s not confuse the multiple meanings of the word “state” here.
How are you this ignorant of current events?
What seems most likely to me is that some of these had the State Park category on Google Maps for a long time, and now it’s being noticed. They say the “Provincial Park” category was removed, which implies it used to be an option.
There’s a bit of variation between types of park, even found a provincial park that is labeled both national park and just park, depending on where in the UI you find it.
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Labeling was probably never reliably strictly correct, but removing Provincial Park as a category is a little hostile, considering the timing. (Assuming it used to be an option, and Samantha in the video isn’t entirely mistaken.)
…actually, this is at the bottom of the article:
“If you ever see the extremely rare ‘provincial park’ used as a category, this was imported automatically by Google using the old Google Map Maker categories. They have long since simplified the categories (there used to be many hundreds of obscure categories) and provincial park is no longer an option when adding or editing parks,” she said.
It doesn’t make much sense to remove “Provincial Park” when there are so many specific variations when you go further down to regional, municipal, city, community, etc. parks and they have a bunch of very specific (and often unrelated) park categories. Here are a few that are near me:
- Park
- Ecological Park
- Memorial Park
- City Park (none of which are near a city, run by a city, or even a municipality)
- Hiking Area
- Playground
Do you guys need any geologists? I’d love to get out of this country.
We have quite a lot of geology.
I mean I knew Americans weren’t great at geography, I didn’t realize it was this bad.
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.
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.
The geodata and related open source technology to edit, review, and host it is already available from openstreetmap community
Open source options exist. We just need more people using OpenStreetMaps and shit.
As much as i try to update OSM with local knowledge, there’s no way to keep OSM reasonably up to date without automation tools.
I’m not sure how OSM can replicate whatever tools google uses to constantly update open/close hours, new/dead businesses, bus stops with schedules, etc.
This is all just crowd sourced no? Like after I visit a place google will ask me a bunch of questions about it (eg. “Did they sell X here?”).
Atleast in India, Gmaps isn’t updated on local info either. OSM is barren in comparison.
There’s maps.cz, somehow has more local data (like hiking trails).
We have. Only it’s not well known, because of Google’s monopoly.
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.
Organic Maps and OSMAnd are phone apps. You can use Street Complete which is like Pokemon GO but improves the maps in your area.
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.
Yeah people have to start using OpenMaps more, and OSMAnd app alternative for navigation
I also recommend Magic Earth, I find the navigation to be more reliable than OSMAnd+
Yep! I recently created an account with https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and started mapping my local area. Fuck Google.
I have been using the StreetComplete app that ties to that. It is actually helpful because I noticed some bad information on the local maps that was very easy to correct in the app.
Yeah! StreetComplete is great! They really make it easy to improve the maps. It’s even motivated me to get out and walk more so I can complete the little quests.
Relevant communities:
just scrape the traffic data, it’s what they would do.
from “Not Evil” to “Prime Evil” in just a couple decades.
decades
Years
They’ve ramped it up in recent years, sure, but I think they been dormantly evil since they came on the scene and we just didn’t realize it until the hooks were in deep.
Perfect strategy for this kinda thing, and now they can just be brazen about it. Kinda like a certain red party in a certain shithole country.
They show up as provincial parks for me?
Some of them are listed as state when you bring up their card.
What I don’t get is some are labeled park and some state parks.
Feels like we’re being politically raped, and it’s really pissing me off.
Yeah, they elected a rapist so…
Grab 'em by the parks!
Ikr?! How do you even begin to make sense of that?! You can’t! And now, here the rest of us are being forced to deal with it. Makes me wanna scream.
Please do: loudly and at the local US consulate of possible. If not, if there is a town hall, they need to hear your complaint.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_States
Cracking and Packing. Learn and save yourselves, if you can.
I get the very strong sense it’s too late, that we’ve crossed some line or passed some tipping point… really hope I’m wrong.
crossed a ripping point yes. so tactics change. it’s not too late as long as people are still alive. Like painting or sewing – we build on and salvage from mistakes. (see: transitional ethics, from social sciences)
if you feel despair, seek community and feed your soul. Please do not comply in advance, internet friend!
we survived the AIDs crisis by working and organizing by day, potlucking together, and partying and dancing to feed our spirits by night. (figurative, for our night owls and 3rd shifters.)
Thanks. I’m not worried for myself in the common sense, and don’t plan on complying… I’m more worried for others and how they’ll cope with what I suspect is coming.
fortunately there is plenty of work to harness worry to usefulness. whatever your skills, I’m sure local chapters of progressive and human rights groups could appreciate the support. even just using whatever privledge you have to shut down racist or sexist jokes and denormalizing exclusive-supremacist comments and behavior helps hold the line.
uh someone link those fight the altright videos ig. the lecture has already been done with cool production.
if you feel despair, seek community and feed your soul. Please do not comply in advance, internet friend!
This right here is lovely, and I know I’m not gonna be the only person scrolling by who needed to read it. ty.
Came here to talk about this as well.
May as well start calling temples “churches” and change all speed limits to Mph since it seems we’re in a “being wrong” contest.
Can you please go burn down the White House again?
Just label the US as South/Lesser Canada.
The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it…
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.
Mount Robson Park from both search and maps:
Looks like they have not changed all of them yet
They don’t let you specify in the ‘edit suggestion’ what it should be; but they let you add images.
/edit submitted one for every park in BC.
Congrats. It’s a lot of parks.
Since we are renaming things, why not abandon the America noun to designate the USA?
That would please millions on Americans from many countries that calls themselves Americans since they are referring to the continent.
