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Out of curiosity, why is none of northern Africa mapped? I'm even more surprised none of Turkey is mapped... they even have positions there [1], so I'm guessing
by dylandrop 13y ago
Out of curiosity, why is none of northern Africa mapped? I'm even more surprised none of Turkey is mapped... they even have positions there [1], so I'm guessing it's not an opposition to Google by the government.
[1] http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/istanbul/ http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/istanbul/
- ranit 13y agoLacking coverage might be because of local laws – see Germany and Greece for example.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoTurkey is mapped by http://harita.yandex.com.tr http://harita.yandex.com.tr by the way. And many parts of Asia by their own internet companies.
- egeozcan 13y agoEspecially in Istanbul, I guess it would be hard because 1) Roads change all the time, tunnels are built, huge sections of the city gets randomly closed to traffic permanently and so... 2) Istanbul doesn't have a proper road/street system but something which rather seems to be some paths randomly crossing and a lot of houses built in the smallest possible remaining land. It's also generally not clear which roads are public and private.