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Yeah, our city data is a bit eccentric sometimes. It came from a US government dataset that was originally compiled in the 70´s, and is thus a bit skewed towards things we might have been interested in bombing in the near future.

For that reason, you´ll find every dwelling, rice paddy and waterbull in Southeast Asia clearly labeled, but entire resort towns in Australia might go missing.

They also had a strange concept of political correctness, introducing a country called ¨No Man´s Land¨ in the middle of Israel. Jerusalem, by the way, can be found labeled ¨Jerusalem, Israel, West Bank¨, somewhere towards the bottom of the autocomplete list.

Good luck in the mideast!

permalink written by  Jason Kester on November 21, 2009


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