The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario has found itself at the center of a fight between Washington and Ottawa.
Cole Burston / AFP via Getty Images Trump's attempt to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" drew the attention of an internet icon.
MapQuest, the first online map platform and precursor to Google Maps, won't be following Trump's lead.
It also made a tool to generate screenshots with joke labels, writing "Lake Are We Doing This Again?" The first-ever mapping website is adamant: It won't change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" despite President Donald Trump's executive order.
MapQuest's X account shared a screenshot of the body of water on Thursday, saying: "We're not changing it." The post received over 70,000 likes.
None of the account's 24 posts in July got more than two.
"Shocking to see you're still alive," Eric Trump responded.
"I thought the iPhone 3 took you out 15 years ago." MapQuest calls itself "the OG of online mapping" in its X bio.
It first launched in 1996 and was bought by AOL for $1.1 billion four years later, at the height of the dot-com boom.
However, by 2008, MapQuest fell behind Google Maps .
It was sold to System1, an online advertising firm, in 2019.
There's no official word yet from Google or Apple on whether they will change the name of Lake Ontario on their map services.
MapQuest has also made a site that lets users pick their own name for the body of water and generate a joke screenshot.
The most-liked replies included "Lake of Hormuz" and "Lake Gulf of Mexico." We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario.
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