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

98 pointsby thepasswordistoday at 6:19 PM34 commentsview on HN

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mikert89today at 6:36 PM

Israel is really out there just killing everyone in the middle east

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aduffytoday at 6:33 PM

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.

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Chance-Devicetoday at 6:31 PM

This saddens me and I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue.

And I’m not just talking about Apple Maps.

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jjtheblunttoday at 6:34 PM

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

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thepasswordistoday at 6:19 PM

This is amid an ongoing bombing campaign by Israel which is primarily targeting civilians.

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antiherotoday at 6:34 PM

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?

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oa335today at 6:28 PM

Any justification given by Apple?

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Jimmc414today at 6:36 PM

Willful blindness as a service

zeandcodetoday at 6:38 PM

This is insane

morkalorktoday at 6:35 PM

How 1984 of them. "This village never existed, stop asking about it"

creddittoday at 6:35 PM

Currently 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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throwaway132448today at 6:36 PM

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