The application was probably the victim of jokes taking advantage of a flaw in its process of verifying the modifications suggested by users.
Is Geneva annexing Lake Geneva? In recent days, users of the Apple Plans application have been surprised to see the extent of water at the border between France and Swiss renown “Lac de Geneva”, as well as it is called on the west bank where the eponymous city is located. An error spotted on August 5 by the specialized site Mac4Ever and still not corrected this Friday, August 8 in the morning.
It is not, as with the Gulf of Mexico renamed “Gulf of America” by Donald Trump, a fad of policies wanting to impose the name of their canton on their neighbors, but probably a flaw of the system exploited by Geneva jokes, estimates the specialized site. Online mapping applications, including those of giants like Google and Apple, work on the basis of suggestions from their users to stay up to date.
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Plans therefore offers its users to report errors: we can thus suggest a correction of the name of a place in the application, and it seems that if enough people coordinate to make the same report, it is accepted without more in -depth verification. Fortunately, the application always finds Lake Geneva if you are looking for it precisely, which should limit the risk of confusion when searching for the route.
Contacted, Apple had not yet responded to Figaro at the time of the publication of the article. But this flaw in the verification process was already exploited in June, when users had managed to rename the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris in “Boulevard Ousmane”, in tribute to Ousmane Dembélé after the victory of PSG in the Champions League.
