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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.
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This kind of innuendo adds nothing of value to the conversation. Either say what you intend to say, or just don't post. The coy "I know something but can't say it" is silly and just sounds like you have a persecution complex.
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.
Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment.
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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.
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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 dat…
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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.
Captured by whom?
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Yeah true, how do we know these bridges and towns were there beforehand? Maybe Apple has never had good coverage in this area. Just linking to a map doesn't tell us what was removed or when.
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This 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…