"Congrats to @Google for getting Arabic script backwards & disconnected during @sundarpichai's presentation on *Google Translate*, because small independent startups like Google can't afford to hire anyone with a 4 year olds' elementary school level knowledge of Arabic writing." - Rami Ismail comments on seeing one of the biggest companies in the world make amateur mistakes.
Note: This coverage in western Nigeria has been specially recorded with these cameras, the fact that they are cheap means that Google doesn't really mind having to pay a follow car to monitor the mapping.
Beirut (Cov. Date: May 2021 to Apr 2023), Kfar Yassine & Jounieh in Mount Lebanon Governorate (Cov. Date: Aug 2023)
April 20
Lebanon (Coverage launched in literal squares):
Dahr Badris, a random suburb in Keserwan District, Mount Lebanon Governorate and Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve, in which it would have been perfect to photograph with a gen 4 trekker. (Cov. Date: Aug 2023)
Kfarshlan Municipality in North Governorate, part of the coverage is broken because the dataset of many small towns lack a lot of street information (Cov. Date: Jul 2021 to Mar 2023)
April 22
Lebanon (Coverage launched in literal squares):
Hsarat in Mount Lebanon Governorate (Cov. Date: Jul 2023) (Note: All street names in this village have the same name, indicating that Lebanon is one of the MENA countries that needs an improvement in its dataset) & Jdaidet Ghazir (Cov. Date: Aug 2023)
Majdalaiya in North Governorate (Cov. Date: Jun 2021 to Feb 2023) (Note: The 2021 coverage is very misplaced due to GPS errors that is why in many panos the 2021 images do not coincide with 2023)
April 24
Lebanon (Coverage launched in literal squares):
Tripoli & Batroun in Nothern Governorate (Cov. Date: Jun 2021 to Jun 2023) (Note: The 2021 coverage is very misplaced due to bad GPS of the camera)
Biblos (Note: You can notice the difference in camera quality between the generic and official Google cameras, in this case the City Citadel was covered with an official Gen 3 Trekker in 2017 while the 2023 coverage used a poor quality camera)
April 27
Lebanon (Coverage launched in literal squares):
Zgharta in Nothern Governorate (Cov. Date: Feb 2023)
Sidon in Southern Governorate (Cov. Date: Sept 2021)
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