Profile used for matching
Edit these in setup/profiles.php and re-import from the Data page.
- Script
- Arabic, Latin
- Language
- Arabic, English
- Road edge lines
- Yellow, solid
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, Yellow, solid
- Street View car
- White, Black
- Car details
- Roof rack, Pickup truck
- Camera
- Gen 3, Gen 4
- Licence plates
- White
- Landscape
- Arid, Flat
- Vegetation
- Palms
- Road surface
- Good
- Road numbers
- E, D
Country-wide 10
Typically a flat desert landscape
Yellow outer lines, middle white or yellow
Jordan: No English on signs + black Google car → Jordan.
Israel West Bank: Hebrew + yellow plates → Israel.
Oman: Oman's pickup antenna/pole details + generally more mountainous SE.
Gen3: white car with black roof racks
The only Middle-Eastern country with a white Google car - white cars exist on other continents, so pair with Arabic+English signage.
Gen4: white pickup w/ trekker camera (often fully blurred) or black car w/ visible brake light
Qatar: UAE: front antenna in the middle of the cabin; Qatar: on the left.
Oman: Check the antenna + Oman's mountains/kerb styles.
Israel West Bank: Hebrew → Israel.
Arabic + English on most signs (tourism)
Qatar: Pickup antenna position + Doha skyline → Qatar.
Oman: More mountains + Omani signposts → Oman.
Jordan: No English → Jordan.
Residential houses of light-coloured stone; reddish sidewalk stones
Black-white striped signposts (in the Middle East also Oman); nearly all kerbs striped (b&w or black-yellow)
Oman: Oman: brown wooden poles similar; more mountainous; different plate shape.
Divided roads + roundabouts everywhere; residential roads often unpaved despite the wealth
Poles: dark-brown wood, 3 insulators symmetric on a horizontal bar
Oman: Details + landscape decide.
Jordan: Wood vs concrete.
Camera rifts occasionally (most common in Albania, Montenegro, Senegal)
Regional 2
Coverage mostly northeast (only exception with car coverage: Sir Baniyas Island; other remote spots = trekkers)
Dubai skyline w/ Burj Khalifa; mountains ONLY in the far east; N-Ras-al-Khaimah = light mountains east; mountains west + flat east = Gulf of Oman coast
City 1
Gen4 sidewalk trekker (sometimes black hair visible) incl. old town; blue street signs w/ narrow metal border specific to Dubai
Specific spots 2
Rare white car w/ visible side mirrors + sparse vegetation
Trekker spotlights: Al Ain (2 forts + zoo, far from car coverage); racetrack east of Abu Dhabi; remote dune trekkers in the far south (Taraq↔Alyhyali)