How exactly are you imagining Maps doing that change, taking this as a specific example? Pichai’s red trump phone ringing? Immediate order within Google after someone read Trump’s xwitter posts?
For the US Google polls the data from GNIS (which is an official government entity), just as there is the CGNDB for Canada, OSNGD for the UK, CGA for Australia, and something similar for anything that’s remotely considered a first world country.
This is not a political change, it probably would cost Google more effort to not follow the rename, instead of relying on the systems and processes that are in place for years already.
Do you have a source for Google pulling for GNIS? I can’t imagine it would be an easy thing to collate with Google’s own data about geographical features.
If this were about pulling data from GNIS, it would have taken at least a month to show up on their platform. Its governent data and legacy data pipelines.
Some Google developer had to write an entry for this to happen so fast. 100%.
How exactly are you imagining Maps doing that change, taking this as a specific example? Pichai’s red trump phone ringing? Immediate order within Google after someone read Trump’s xwitter posts?
For the US Google polls the data from GNIS (which is an official government entity), just as there is the CGNDB for Canada, OSNGD for the UK, CGA for Australia, and something similar for anything that’s remotely considered a first world country.
This is not a political change, it probably would cost Google more effort to not follow the rename, instead of relying on the systems and processes that are in place for years already.
Do you have a source for Google pulling for GNIS? I can’t imagine it would be an easy thing to collate with Google’s own data about geographical features.
If this were about pulling data from GNIS, it would have taken at least a month to show up on their platform. Its governent data and legacy data pipelines.
Some Google developer had to write an entry for this to happen so fast. 100%.