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Posted by thepasswordis 2 hours ago

Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps(maps.apple.com)
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Jimmc414 2 hours ago|
Willful blindness as a service
jjtheblunt 2 hours ago||
Apple maps used (last i knew) Scala to import externally sourced map datasets continuously, and those may have lost towns and villages in Lebanon.
aduffy 2 hours ago|
I don't understand what using Scala has to do with anything here.
finnlab 2 hours ago|||
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

jjtheblunt 2 hours ago|||
yeah Scala doesn't matter, just thought that was interesting as a "factoid"
antihero 2 hours ago||
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?

ks2048 8 minutes ago||
The data is in OSM, which Apple uses (to what degree and where, I'm not sure).
bertil 2 hours ago||
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.

cozzyd 2 hours ago||
Surely they could just... Leave what they used to have?
bertil 2 hours ago||
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.
oa335 2 hours ago||
Any justification given by Apple?
johndevor 2 hours ago||
We all know why, but we're too scared to say.
ryandrake 2 hours ago|||
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.
colordrops 25 minutes ago|||
Some one said it directly in response to you and their comment is dead, so it's not just a "complex".
Pay08 2 hours ago||||
They gave up the pretense much easier than I thought they would.
johndevor 2 hours ago||||
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walletdrainer 2 hours ago|||
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oa335 1 hour ago|||
> most jews are lunatics

Ironically, this is actually antisemitic.

replooda 59 minutes ago|||
Posts such as yours — "most jews..." — help push forward the narrative that anyone critical of them is antisemitic.
stri8ted 2 hours ago||||
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.
pixl97 1 minute ago|||
I mean, your right, unless you actually work for a government or state and then you cannot.

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-ant...

johndevor 2 hours ago|||
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bigyabai 2 hours ago||
It's certainly not made easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
deadbolt 2 hours ago|||
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johndevor 2 hours ago||
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colechristensen 2 hours ago|||
Apple does much of their own mapping but they also rely quite a bit on external data sources, whichever one of those they use probably dropped the data for one reason or another.
formerly_proven 2 hours ago||
They might genuinely not exist any more. The world's attention was heavily distracted by the campaign in Iran and the Hormuz strait while Israel never stopped doing their ...stuff... in Lebanon.
jampekka 2 hours ago|||
This is sadly not that far fetched.

"The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations."

"The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza” to stop threats to communities in northern Israel. The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-of...

nativeit 2 hours ago||||
So did Munich stop existing after we leveled it in 1944?
amarant 2 hours ago||||
And if they do, they probably don't want to be found
moogly 2 hours ago|||
War crimes. War crimes are the words you're looking for.
contingencies 2 hours ago||
Apple: 1984 as a service. "We know walled gardens."

Quick: someone do the graphic, you can sell merch. Mail a freebie and a purchase link to every makerspace on the planet.

Some interesting background to current hostilities: "The UN Security Council has voted to wind up the near 50 year UNIFIL [peace keeping] mission after lobbying from Israel pushed the United States to veto its renewal. The mission will end in 2027." https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/whatsinblue/2025/08/un...

morkalork 2 hours ago||
How 1984 of them. "This village never existed, stop asking about it"
proshno 2 hours ago|
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