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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?

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.

Surely they could just... Leave what they used to have?

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.

The data is in OSM, which Apple uses (to what degree and where, I'm not sure).

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