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maxerickson
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As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fu...
Or not. This is the essential process that any place name goes through (really any name), someone starts using it and then others adopt it.
Whether the first someone is an official isn't that important.
mantas
on Aug 2, 2018
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The difference is that Google makes it look like a legit name even if few people used it before.
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Whether the first someone is an official isn't that important.