Actually I managed to find another unmapped country - North korea...

On Nov 13, 3:52 am, Ron Barak <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Nov 12, 3:56 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the reason is political ?
>
> > Google buy the data in from various suppliers.  For Israel, the data
> > is licensed from GISrael.  We have no idea what conditions they impose
> > on the use of their data in Google products, but we can guess that for
> > some reason use of the data in the API hasn't been agreed.  That might
> > be about prohibitive costs or paranoia, who knows.
>
> So, Google has managed to reach agreements with GIS suppliers for
> every country and teritory on Earth - but Israel ?
> And they cannot even show data for the smallest scale, maybe just the
> capital city (Jerusalem) ?
> Sorry, I don't buy it: too far fetched ;-)

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