Apple Changes Crimea Map When Viewed From Russia
BBC (via Hacker News):
Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, drawing international condemnation.
The region, which has a Russian-speaking majority, is now shown as Russian territory on Apple Maps and its Weather app, when viewed from Russia.
But the apps do not show it as part of any country when viewed elsewhere.
This happens pretty much everywhere with every online map. Kashmir, Taiwan, Western Sahara, etc. etc. Apple doing it for one country is not particularly news.
The only major-league mapping site I know that doesn’t do local alterations is OpenStreetMap, and that’s because OSM’s attitude is “you want the map to show something else? sure, download the raw data and host your own instance”.
Previously:
