Google Maps adds Israel Streets!
To be honest this post is a bit delayed, apprantly this became partially available back in September-December (partially meaning street maps without names, then only names in Hebrew) and I sort of forgot to continue checking up on it. Sorry, guys. But, now Google maps offers fully functional (almost) Israelli street maps in English and Hebrew. Israeli cities will show up in the suggested search drop down, you can view satelite, map and hybrid views of the Israeli cities, suburbs and country side, and there is a ton of user created content.
The API is open, but apparently in a limited way (more on this in future posts) and the directions interface is a bit buggy (I tried getting a map from Beit Shemesh to Yerushalayim and it gave me a 9 minute drive through Beit Shemesh, when I switched to Jerusalem it gave me good directions, even though the listing on the map is for Yerushalayim), but this is definetly really cool! No more emaps for me!
As you can see below the embedable content is still not fully updated.
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