Post #1523909

@Migueldeicaza This seems like one of those times where incompetence is much more likely than malice. If it were malice, why would it just be Apple Maps? Someone would probably try to coordinate all the maps to do this simultaneously. A data issue at Apple is far more likely. Someone fat-fingered a command and it removed all the cities in Lebanon and their QA process didn't catch it. Or the threshold for a city showing up on the map is population > X and someone messed up that value. I used to work on an Internet maps team, though not at Apple, and these kinds of screw-ups happen. There are automatic release checks that are supposed to catch it. But, the checks tend to be "we messed this up once, let's catch it next time". There isn't much willingness to spend engineering time and effort creating new tests for theoretically possible scenarios.