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

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

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Post by foxfired »

You can look up Maroun Al-Ras [0] and it's map coordinate [1]. If you search for the name, you find a garden of the same name, but not the village. The instagram reel that was posted earlier had more context [2].

From wikipedia:

> In October 2024, IDF forces operated in the village as part of its invasion of southern Lebanon. The Israeli flag was raised, after the victory.

Which Apple might use as a justification. There is a Israeli flag, so it must belong to them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroun_al-Ras

[1]: https://maps.apple.com/frame?center=33.107500%2C35.444722&sp...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363

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

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Post by threethirtytwo »

walletdrainer wrote: post #39
threethirtytwo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is removing a city from a map a some sort of sign that apple did it for malicious reasons?

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What is the signal? Not snark, I’m not well informed and I need it spelled out.

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

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Post by proshno »

Well…what to expect from these tech companies who are openly and shamelessly complicit of genoc/de and the worst crimes in humanity?

Just read it:

“Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide” https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/15/apple-buys-israeli-pre-sp...

And, of course, this post is flagged…because who know who run Y Combinator!

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

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Post by luke5441 »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #5
thepasswordis wrote: post #2

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Yeah, maybe they have some kind of computer vision algorithm that automatically recognizes that the villages are now only rubble in satellite pictures and auomatically update the map /s

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

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Post by finnlab »

aduffy wrote: post #15
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.

I don't know either but here is the answer from Wikipedia: "The main provider of map data is TomTom, but data is also supplied by Automotive Navigation Data, Getchee, Hexagon AB, IGN, Increment P, Intermap Technologies, LeadDog, MDA Information Systems, OpenStreetMap, and Waze."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps

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

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Post by threethirtytwo »

bigyabai wrote: post #43
threethirtytwo wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> the map should not navigate there, my life would be in danger. Why is Yemen, Iran, Sudan and Ukraine still mapped then?

Were those cities bombed out?

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

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Post by throwaway132448 »

Bengalilol wrote: post #46
throwaway132448 wrote: post #19

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This is not an article, but a link to Apple Plans/Maps where you can observe all locations have been removed. As for now, it is hard to conclude anything but this looks like a bug (I know I am being optimistic).

Ok, so remove “these articles” and replace with “this” and my point still stands.

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

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Post by bertil »

cozzyd wrote: post #42
bertil wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satellite source would require detailed editing, and there’s very little chance those are fully automated. The entire Middle-East is being blocked, but only Lebanon is being affected. It could be that they have a provider in Lebanon that was bombed but I’ve never heard of a cartographer with local dependencies like that.

Surely they could just... Leave what they used to have?

Yeah, that’s the default option for detailed databases like that. Large deletion are either technical issues (and that should affect a lot more than one country) or deliberate edits.

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

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Post by bertil »

_2d30 wrote: post #30
bertil wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can very easily verify the claim by following the link. Other than three major cities, there are no agglomeration listed in Lebanon. Other countries have detailed maps.

Actually I can't because I've never seen if Apple ever had them in the first place.

It sounds like a great opportunity to ask if people have used Apple Maps in Lebanon before.

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

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Post by daneel_w »

_2d30 wrote: post #16

Currently 50 points and is just a link to Apple Maps with an unverified claim. EDIT: I'm at -2 for stating a fact.

I believe OP is asking for a before/after of Apple Maps, because just seeing the map now isn't telling us whether Apple previously disclosed the villages and towns. I'm sure OP isn't thinking that the region is full of random roads out in the wilderness leading to nothing, which is the wrong conclusion the downvoters are probably leaping at.
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