Where's Isreal

I'm about to travel in Israel, but noticed you only have Arab cities listed... Jerusalem isn't even available.

What's up with that?

written by Eric Robishaw on November 18, 2009

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!

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Jason Kester on November 21, 2009

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Heading South?