MapQuest isn’t renaming Lake Ontario, despite Trump’s executive order. And it’s surging in the App Store

Over the last few days, hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the MapQuest app from the App Store, making it the number one navigation app. There’s one reason why: the OG online mapping company said that it has no plans to rename Lake Ontario after Trump’s executive order calling it Lake America. “We saw the president signing the name change executive order, and we had a very quick conversation and immediately came out with a simple statement: We’re not changing it,” says Doug Berger, general manager at MapQuest. “And we were blown away by the trajectory of that post.” If you type “Lake Ontario” into Google Maps, by contrast, it now autocorrects to “Lake America”—at least if you’re in the U.S. In Canada, Google Maps still shows it as Lake Ontario. Google said in a blog post that its policy is to follow official government sources, and the U.S. Geographic Names Information System formally changed the name to Lake America at Trump’s behest. Canada, of course, did not make that change, which is why Canadians still see the original name on Google. [Screenshot: MapQuest] It might be a reasonable policy in ordinary times. But at a time when the president is changing names base…