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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So where they called provincial parks before?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

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