Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Apple Maps is showing Lebanon as a depopulated place. All village names erased.
Compare Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
Guess nobody lives there, they will need to send Israeli settlers to make the mountains and coastal resort towns flourish.
Xenotime, Librarian of Æther 
@Migueldeicaza they show some of the big cities but that’s it, nothing else
you can even zoom in and see marked locations like businesses, hotels, and public squares but the village or town itself is not even marked
this is so strange and scary to look at
at first I thought maybe there’s some reason for it the government doesn’t want to share the geographical data or something but Google Maps has this place so……
you can even zoom in and see marked locations like businesses, hotels, and public squares but the village or town itself is not even marked
this is so strange and scary to look at
at first I thought maybe there’s some reason for it the government doesn’t want to share the geographical data or something but Google Maps has this place so……
@xeno yes and bing maps which is not remotely as good has everything labeled.
This seems to be a recent and purposeful change.
Bing, google, Apple and open street maps:
Franklin Delano Stallone@Migueldeicaza @xeno Without seeing it before the war it's hard to say if it is incompetence or planned.
But on Maps on macOS Matat didn't even show up initially for me and North Korea, as an example, is much more bare than Google Maps.
If the other maps go blank sure, but if it's to make people think there's nothing there then leaving it on Google maps & leaving the satellite images makes no sense.
They all rolled over on the gulf of America. I don't see Apple going out on their own on this.