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Google is a powerful company, but did you know it can rename entire areas of a city, seemingly accidentally?

Google是一家实力雄厚的公司，但您是否知道它可以重命名城市的整个区域？

Jack Nicas, writing for the New York Times, outlines several instances this has happened. Here’s one:

杰克·尼卡斯(Jack Nicas) 为《纽约时报》撰文 ，概述了发生这种情况的几种情况。 这是一个：

For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.

几十年来，市区以南和旧金山湾旁的区域一直被称为林Kong山，南海滩或市场南部。 今年春天，它突然在Google Maps上更名，变成了鲜为人知的名字：East Cut。

The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.

奇特的绰号立即以数字形式传播，从酒店网站到约会应用程序再到Uber，所有这些都使用Google的地图数据。 这个名字很快也传播到了现实世界。 房地产清单吸引了East Cut的潜在租户。 新闻组织用这个词指代附近。

The strange thing: it’s not clear where Google Maps even found the name “the East Cut,” but now it’s out there. The map changed reality.

奇怪的是：目前尚不清楚Google Maps在哪儿找到了“ East Cut”这个名字，但现在它就在那里了。 地图改变了现实。

This isn’t a new phenomenon, of course: mapmakers have unintentionally created towns in the past as part of a copyright scheme. John Green explains how in this video, and it’s crazy fascinating. Check it out:

当然，这不是一个新现象：作为版权计划的一部分，地图制作者过去无意间创建了城镇。 约翰·格林(John Green)解释了该视频中的操作方式，令人着迷。 看看这个：

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/google-maps-is-renaming-entire-neighborhoods/

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