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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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Since when has war not been awful? I don’t remember anyone complaining when Hezbollah attacks Israel though.

You mean to tell us you were living under a rock when there was an international outcry agaist Hezbollah attacking Israel?

Where was this outcry? Hezbollah made northern Israel uninhabitable for years.

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

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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.

Google maps has done this forever. A good chunk of countries have disputed territories, and never in human history there has been a "universal" map that everybody agrees on.

i wouldn’t consider it very disputed, the only country “disputing” who it belongs to is israel. all other countries agree that area belongs to lebanon.

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

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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.

It seems like people are asking, and the answer is that these towns and villages have indeed never been on Apple Maps:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744594

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

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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?

Israel

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

#146

Multiple commenters here are asking if the towns and villages were ever included in Apple maps in the first place, and some people are saying we should obviously assume they were. However, a quick search reveals at least a few people claiming that Apple Maps has always been empty for Lebanon outside of major cities (and at least one commenter says they are Lebanese): https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1sjmrol/co…

Here's a screenshot from a 2020 tweet that implies this was the case (although it is not zoomed in very far).

https://x.com/hezbolsonaro/status/1310354231795171328

Still odd because OSM has all these towns and Apple appears to be using the OSM street network, but not showing the labels

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

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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.

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

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You mean to tell us you were living under a rock when there was an international outcry agaist Hezbollah attacking Israel?

Where was this outcry? Hezbollah made northern Israel uninhabitable for years.

Likewise… Israel has made southern Lebanon inhabitable. And large swaths of Palestine.

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

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Entire segments of the podcast sphere are making their money talking about these so-called unspeakable subjects. Why don't you share what you really think.

Maybe because there are laws against it?
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