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avanpelt

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I was just getting ready for a trip to Florida when I thought I'd give Apple Maps another shot. I didn't know the coast of Florida had such a heavy Asian influence when it comes to naming towns!
 

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I was just getting ready for a trip to Florida when I thought I'd give Apple Maps another shot. I didn't know the coast of Florida had such a heavy Asian influence when it comes to naming towns!

I see it too, though it doesn't appear to be the name of a town since, as you zoom in further, it disappears.

Anyone able to translate it? I'd be interested to know what it says.
 
St Augustine Beach.

Yet another example of seemingly non-existent quality control in the Maps data. Are they getting this data on the cheap from China?! Granted, I have no idea what language that is, but it'd be pretty ironic if it's a form of Chinese.
 
I'm pretty sure that it's Korean. Chinese looks a bit more complex :)

I've had Google Navigation randomly drop into Japanese so it doesn't only affect Apple!
 
I can't read Korean either but I went to Google translate and turned "St Augustine Beach" into Korean and it looks like the text in the picture :)
 
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