Scandal on the Lake Geneva Arc
Lake Geneva has been renamed Lake Geneva by Apple
By taking advantage of a lack of alertness, several people managed to rename the lake in the Apple Maps application (plans).
Stupor, Lake Geneva has become Lake Geneva on Apple’s application.
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It is a joke that is not likely to make everyone laugh, especially in the canton of Vaud and in Valais. In recent days, Lake Geneva has been renamed Geneva Lake On Apple Maps, also known as plans. It is the media specialized in high-tech Mac4Ever who noted this funny error. But just open the application to realize change.
For Genevans, this may appear as a victory, as this appellation constitutes an assumed teasing of the residents of the end of the lake at the place of their compatriots. Sides Vaudois and Valaisan, we rather risk choking: the official name of Lake Geneva is taken very seriously.
Description of Lake Geneva in the Plans application.
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The largest lake in Western Europe is however called in certain languages, as in English (Lake of Geneva) or in German (Lake Geneva), which regularly revives the debate around Lake Geneva. A conflict that has lasted for centuries, various names that have always been given to the lake.
But what really happened? Has an official decision been made to rename it like this? Do not panic: it is simply a flaw exploited by clever little on Apple, explains Mac4ever.
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From Lake Geneva Lake
Indeed, if several people agree to “submit an error” to the brand to the apple concerning an name, it can end up being modified, provided that the reports are sufficiently numerous. Which seems to be the case in this case in Lake Geneva.
This is not a first: in Paris, Boulevard Haussmann has already been renamed Boulevard Ousmane (Dembélé), in tribute to the footballer after the victory this year of the year PSG in the Champions League.
It remains to be seen when the real name of Lake Geneva will be restored on the application. And let’s take this opportunity to recall that the term Lake Geneva already means lake-so we don’t say Lake Geneva. However, the pleonasm is however widespread.
If this joke will smile in a relatively small perimeter, it however raises questions about the Apple Maps verification system. And, in the event of a street name change, could complicate the journeys of motorists using the application as GPS, concludes the article.
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