Profile used for matching
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- Script
- Latin
- Language
- English, Afrikaans, Zulu
- Road edge lines
- Yellow, solid
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, White, solid, Triple
- Bollards
- Plain white
- Telephone poles
- Wood
- Street View car
- Blue
- Car details
- Antenna
- Camera
- Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4, Small cam
- Licence plates
- White, Yellow
- Warning signs
- White triangle
- Landscape
- Arid, Temperate, Flat, Mountainous
- Vegetation
- Eucalyptus, Acacia, Pine
- Road numbers
- N, R, M
Country-wide 8
Drives on the left
Single yellow outer + white centre lines on most roads; occasionally unique triple centre lines (2 solid white + dashed inside, or white-yellow-white) on main roads
Botswana: N/R road numbers → ZA; A/B → Botswana.
Eswatini: MR-roads → Eswatini.
Lesotho: A/B roads + mountains everywhere → Lesotho.
Namibia: C/D roads + gravel + desert → Namibia.
Australia: Yellow outers → southern Africa, not Australia.
Gen2 quite common (big circular blur + sky halo) - the only African country with Gen2; Gen4 = blue car w/ short antenna; smallcam exists (short antenna on the back)
African Gen2 round = South Africa, full stop.
11 official languages - English dominates signage; Afrikaans (Dutch-like): suffixes -fontein, -kraal, -kop, -dorp, -nek, -berg/-burg - found nationwide (NOT region-useful)
Namibia: Road numbers + landscape decide.
Lesotho: Afrikaans present → ZA.
Most common pole = 'bird poles': 1-5 horizontal bars w/ thin white insulators like rows of perched birds
The southern-African signature pole - dominant in ZA.
Green directional signs w/ yellow road numbers; number format = country: N & R = South Africa only (A/B = BW/LS/NA; +C/D/M/F = Namibia; MR = Eswatini)
The N/R prefix instantly separates ZA from its lookalike neighbours.
Triangular red-border warning signs (Australia/NZ use yellow diamonds); chevrons white-red + unique thin single-arrow mini chevrons roadside
Suburban houses ringed by high walls, fences & gates
Regional 5
Each province = own plate design, some visible through blur: Free State = greenish tint, KwaZulu-Natal = bluish
N-highway map (maps show a blue pentagon instead of the N); 3-digit R-roads geographically grouped (map; 100s scattered); area codes: 10 digits, 0 + 2 regional digits - even the first digit narrows it (06-08 = mobile, useless)
Pole tops by province:
Sticker metas: red squares on sign backs → Eastern Cape (+ nearby NC/FS/NW; on CHEVRON backs = everywhere); white stickers on chevron backs → the Cape provinces; grainy pinkish 'Texas' pavement → Limpopo; power plants → Secunda↔eMalahleni (Mpumalanga)
Landscape:
City 1
City metas: unique M-route signs → Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) & Durban; traffic lights wrapped in 3 reflective tape strips → Johannesburg; Durban lamp arm w/ a bump on top; dodgy abortion/enlargement ads on poles → Gauteng (Joburg, eMalahleni)
Specific spots 2
Kruger NP (Mozambique border): camouflage car w/ black mirrors + roof racks (now also Gen4); flat dry savanna, red soil, no farms, distinctive directional waystones at junctions; gravel or lineless paved roads
Spotlights: R360 north of Bokspits = reddish asphalt, arid w/ grey trees + golden grass, N-S; Table Mountain (3-km plateau + pyramidal Devil's Peak) → west of Cape Town; George's Peak visible north of George