LOS ANGELES – MapQuest has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. navigation app rankings after the mapping service decided not to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” following President Donald Trump’s executive order, the company said Monday.

MapQuest said its app reached No. 1 among navigation apps and No. 8 among all free apps in the U.S. Apple App Store, with downloads surging since Thursday when Trump signed the order.

The company attributed the surge to its decision to keep the original names of lakes and gulfs on its maps.

“We took the same approach we did with the Gulf of Mexico: be part of the conversation, and give people an app that keeps the names they’re familiar with,” MapQuest General Manager Doug Berger said in a statement.

Trump’s order applies to U.S. federal geographic naming and does not change Canada’s designation of the lake. Google Maps has adopted the new name for users in the United States.

The decision has resonated particularly strongly in Canada, where political leaders have rejected the U.S. renaming.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the name Lake Ontario is more than 400 years old and predates both Canadian Confederation and the founding of the United States.

“Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always,” Carney said.

MapQuest also expanded a feature that allows users to create their own names for Lake Ontario and generate a customized image.

The company first introduced the feature last year during the controversy over the U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

MapQuest was launched in 1996, years before Google Maps, and is owned by System1. The company says its mapping services are used by tens of millions of people each month.