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

The 30-year-old app is currently the number one navigation app in the Apple 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........

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