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Perhaps this is a humanitarian action, messing with Apple tankplay.
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?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is straightforward to visit any other online mapping service and see many villages labeled there. Bing: https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=33.185932%7E35.321974&lvl=11.9&... Google: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1649913,35.2506666,11.55z OSM: https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/33.1554/35.2890
Removed means they were there before which means comparison to other maps means nothing. It's possible Apple never had them in the first place. It's completely unverifiable with the link or your links.
OSM is a foundational data layer for GIS. If you're building a mapping service, you're almost certainly using OSM augmented by satellite imagery and other sources to find population zones that OSM has not found yet.
If you look at the Apple Maps satellite layer, you see thousands of structures spread across the area.
It is a reasonable assumption that these population centers were labeled and Apple (or one of its data partners) has withdrawn the labels.
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#63Apple 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.
yeah Scala doesn't matter, just thought that was interesting as a "factoid"
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#64Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#65Currently 50 points and is just a link to Apple Maps with an unverified claim. EDIT: I'm at -2 for stating a fact.
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#66They did the same thing when there was a war between India and China a while ago. As brutal as it sounds, time and again Apple always loves to be on the side of whichever market is bigger. It's really that simple (business wise). Morally? Perhaps not.
There is no perhaps.
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#67This 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.
US government demanded it, not requested it
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#68Currently 50 points and is just a link to Apple Maps with an unverified claim. EDIT: I'm at -2 for stating a fact.
Why do you say unverified? You can activate the hybrid satellite view and look around. There are many towns and cities showing up on satellite view without any label. That's easily verifiable.
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#69Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#70This saddens me and I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue. And I’m not just talking about Apple Maps.
This saddens me as well, because that's the type of thing that happens every day where I live, but... > I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue. The answer is even sadder. It's even worse. And it is as follows: because there's not enough people who are taking action, and from those taking action there's not enough people in power to change something significantly. At least that's how I see it. And... I can't…
This goes beyond direct action by individuals, it’s completely obvious what’s happening and it happens because the US political system has been captured.