maps corrector
restores two names google renamed.
corrections
gulf of america
→
gulf of mexico
lake america
→
lake ontario
on the map
Gulf of Mexico
how it works
page text — search results, place titles, directions, the tab title — is real dom text. it gets rewritten as it appears.
labels drawn on the map are not. they are pixels in a webgl canvas, unreadable and uneditable. so each corrected name is pinned to its feature's coordinates and projected onto the canvas using the camera google keeps in the url.
limitations
- google's own label is not erased. the pill sits on top of it. long stacked names can still peek out around the edges.
- pills hide while you pan or zoom. the url lags the camera, so mid-gesture positions would lie. they come back about a second after you stop.
- street view, the globe view and embedded maps get text correction only.
settings
none. it either runs or it doesn't. disable the extension to stop it.