Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps? • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by aduffy » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC

This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico.

I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by antihero » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

What purpose would this serve in any way?

Could it be that their data source is tied to satellite data that is now being blacked out?

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by jjtheblunt » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

Apple maps used (last i knew) Scala to import externally sourced map datasets continuously, and those may have lost towns and villages in Lebanon.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by mirzap » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

threethirtytwo wrote: post #5

thepasswordis wrote: post #2

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Those towns and villages will be rebuilt after the war. This is not excuse for what Apple did, it is justification for ethnic cleansing and occupation. Same as with Gaza City. It existed for 3500 years, it will be rebuilt and it will outlive the US/Israel for sure.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by aduffy » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

jjtheblunt wrote: post #13

Apple maps used (last i knew) Scala to import externally sourced map datasets continuously, and those may have lost towns and villages in Lebanon.

I don't understand what using Scala has to do with anything here.