Google Maps users have noticed and started documenting the way parks are being labeled in B.C. and Canada. Screenshots provided to Global News show B.C. provincial parks are identified as "state parks ...
Canada does not use a state system like the U.S. Instead, it is divided into 10 different provinces. Provincial parks in Canada are public areas designated by a province’s government for the ...
"We're actively working to update labels for parks in Canada to avoid confusion," a spokesperson told CBC News in an email. Though the state park classification predates the current political ...
Google says it's working to relabel Canadian provincial parks on its maps services after Canadians raised concerns about sovereignty.
Canadians filed widespread complaints after noticing the designation amid 51st state rhetoric. Google has already started ...
Canadians have noticed an unexpected change in Google Maps, where several provincial parks are now labelled as ...
Canadians have taken to social media wondering why Google Maps was referring to some provincial parks as “state” parks, an incorrect designation that has ruffled feathers at a time of heightened ...
“There (are) not any state parks in Canada regardless of what Trump wants Google to have people think,” commented one Google Maps community member with the username Kelly Knudsen on the post ...
Google Canada said its mapping system has many labels for parks in the system and because state parks and provincial parks are both managed by the government they are sometimes used ...