Script: Hebrew (Abjad)

Name: Hebrew (עברית — Ivrit)

Style: Consonant-based script written right to left

Final-form letters (used only at the end of a word): ך ם ן ף ץ

Examples: ישראל (Israel), שלום (peace / hello), בית (house), רחוב (street), חנות (shop), מים (water)

Quick visual giveaway: Right-to-left text with square, disconnected letters (א ב מ ש ת) and no cursive connections = Hebrew.

Camera: Generation 3

Street view coverage was shot from a black car that lacks both:

• a roof antenna
• the distinctive red high-level brake-light

No other Middle-Eastern country uses this exact car. In Israel you can find generation 3 black car with antenna. And generation 4 without it

Camera: Shitcam

Lebanon is unique in the Middle East region for having low-resolution dash-camera - “shitcam”

Additional details: Sometimes front of the black car can be visible (Israel has black car with visible front too) but it is still shitcam

Car: White pickup truck

Visibility: Blurred

Antenna: Left antenna and a few rusty clips on the roof bar visible

Shape: Cylinder

Material: Concrete

Color: Black-and-white stripes

Type: Private

Shape: Long or Short

Background: Yellow

Text: Black

Additional details: Vertical blue band on the left or blue dot n the center

Shape: Cylinder

Material: Wood

Top: Attached horizontal metallic bar with 3 insulators

Unique: A horizontal bar attached to the pole above the wooden post

Color: Blue background with white triangle

Zebra: Dashed dark line without zebra crossing

Person: Black figure wearing a traditional thobe

The flag of Israel features a white field with two horizontal dark sky-blue stripes at the top and bottom, representing a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl).

Centered between the stripes is a blue Star of David

The flag of the United Arab Emirates has four colors: red, green, white, and black.

A vertical red band sits on the left, while the rest of the flag is divided into three horizontal stripes—green on top, white in the middle, and black on the bottom

Three horizontal stripes:

• black (top)
• white (middle)
• green (bottom).

On the left side there is a red triangle pointing toward the center.

Inside the triangle is a small unique white seven-pointed star.

Many concrete utility poles carry small white ID plates with black numbers.

These labels show the pole’s unique code or location reference and are usually fixed at eye level.

The flag of Oman has three horizontal stripes—white, red, and green—with a vertical red band on the left.

At the top of this red band sits the national emblem: a pair of crossed swords beneath a traditional Omani dagger (khanjar)

Type: Commercial, taxi, public transport

Shape: Long or short

Background: White

Text: Black

Additional details: Vertical green band on the left

Background: Yellow

Arrows: Thin black

Additional details: Lots of arrows

Sometimes concrete guardrails have white marks

Camera: Generation 3

Car: Regular sedan

Color: Mostly Black, extremely rare silver

Additional details (unique): Mostly with long or short antenna on the back. Extremely rare without antenna

In Qatar orange highway shield shaped like the country map, with white route number inside.

Material: Plastic or metal

Color: Black or grey

Text: 3-leaf logo and the word ‘be’ah’ (only 1 e)

The falcon emblem, officially the Hawk of Quraish, appears on UAE highway signs because it represents the national symbol.

Using this emblem on highways flags these routes as inter-emirate or national, helping drivers quickly identify major strategic roads.

Shape: White block edged by a thick coloured border

Color: Red, green or blue border and number with white background

Additional details: Along highways on a metal cylinder pole

Type: Commercial

Shape: Long

Background: Red

Text: White

Additional details: In Street view blur the left side is heavily whitened, while the right side stays clean and red.

Local stop signs display a stylised red hand inside the octagon

Regular stop signs without spelling the word ‘STOP’ are also common

Type: Commercial

Shape: Long

Background: Green

Text: White

Additional details: A white blur in the center-bottom of the license plate

Qatar’s flag is maroon with a broad white band on the hoist side, separated by a serrated edge of nine white triangles

Nearly all Generation 3 in the UAE was filmed from a white or silver/grey car (sometimes with visible black roof racks)

Sometimes car is not visible

vs Oman and Qatar: No Generation 3 at all

A unique falcon emblem can be found on utility poles

UAE license plates vary by emirate in their numbering, lettering, and sometimes colour, featuring distinct designs for each of the seven emirates.

Private vehicle plates are typically white

Type: Private

Shape: Long

Background: Yellow

Text: Black

Additional details: In Street view blur the left side is heavily darkened, while the right side stays clean and yellow.

On standard highways in Oman, you’ll see a yellow edge stripe alongside white centre lines

Type: Private

Shape: Long or short

Background: White

Text: Black

Additional details: Sometimes with a vertical red band on the left

Most of Oman is sparsely vegetated desert

Outer lines: Yellow

Center line: White

Most common one

Camera: Generation 4

Car: Regular sedan

Color: Black or fully blurred

Additional details (unique): The black front part of the car is visible sometimes

Type: Private

Shape: Long and short

Background: White

Text: Black

Additional details: Blue band on the left or on the top

Outer lines: Solid yellow both sides

Center line: White dashed

Type: Private

Shape: Long or short

Background: White

Text: Black

Additional details: Red strip on the left

Shape: Cylinder or rectangular long or short

Material: Metall

Color: Black-and-white or black-and-yellow stripes

Shape: Cylindrical with a rounded / domed (hemispherical) top

Color: black-and-white stripes

Material: Plastic

Reflector: Both sides yellow rectangle on top

Signs are mostly in Arabic, but tourist areas almost always include clear English

Background: White

Arrows: Bold red

Shape: Cylinder

Material: Metal

Color: Black-and-white stripes

Household and street bins are usually large plastic wheelie bins in light green, yellow or black, often with Arabic and English labels

Usually you can find words like "General Waste" or bee'ah (with double e vs Oman with single e!)

Camera: Generation 4

Car: Pickup truck

Color: White

Additional details (unique): Sometimes you can see a black antenna in the center at the front of the roof. The same applies in Oman

Shape: Rectangle with a diagonally cut top

Color: White with black diagonal stripe in the center

Material: Plastic

Reflector: White rectangle on one side, two white circles on another. Everything on black stripe

Color: Dark blue with white text

Text: In Arabic and English information about the street name, a street number, and a zone number (Z. No.) in the right corner

Shape: Cylinder

Material: Concrete

Top: A cross-bar with three insulators. The middle insulator is a bit higher. Two diagonal braces supporting the bar

Shape: Rectangle or block arrow

Color: Blue

Text: White arabic. Sometimes with english

Shape: Rectangular, wheeled containers with flip lids

Color: Grey, green, blue or black

Text: Display a round emblem in Arabic and English that reads “Keep Your City Clean.” Sometimes with a person inside a circle

vs UAE: They usually use darker shades of green and black

• Green boards are for local roads within an emirate
• blue boards mark national highways that connect different emirates.

Green signs often carry the Dubai castle emblem, and blue signs display the falcon symbol

Shape: Cylinder. Long or short

Material: Metal

Color: Black-and-white, no color possible

Background: Red

Arrows: Bold or thin white

Additional details: Usually with white border

Road signs often show numbers in two scripts:

• Western Arabic numerals (0–9, as used internationally) and
• Eastern Arabic numerals (١–٢–٣, commonly used in the Arab world).

Both appear together on speed limits, distances, and other traffic signs, making the signage bilingual in numbering.

Road direction signs use a consistent color system:

• blue signs for highways and major routes,
• brown signs for tourist destinations, and
• white signs for local or city guidance.

Text is always bilingual—Arabic and English

Background: Blue

Arrows: Bold or thin white

In Oman, Street View was filmed from a white pickup—sometimes clearly visible sometimes only white blur

Shape: Rectangle

Color: White

Material: Plastic

Reflector: White rectangle on one side, red on another

Camera: Generation 4

Car: Pickup truck

Color: White

Additional details (unique): Sometimes you can see a black antenna in the center at the front of the roof. The same applies in the UAE

Some Gen 4 coverage in the UAE comes from a black car with a visible high brake light

They are small upright posts with a black top plate showing a warning symbol, often used to mark underground utilities such as gas, oil, or water pipelines

Background: Black

Arrows: Bold white

Stop signs often feature the Arabic word ‘قف’ on a red octagon with a white border.

The standard stop sign version also appears

Color: Blue rectangle with white triangle

Num of zebra stripes: 5

Figure: Stick black figure above zebra

Text: Sometimes with white Arabic text below

Background:Blue

Arrows: Bold white

Yellow background with bold black numbers

Type: Commercial

Shape: Short

Background: Black

Text: White

Additional details: White blur is wide on the bottom, narrow on the top of the license plate

Lotf of footage taken before the 2022 FIFA World Cup shows many roadside banners and signs promoting the tournament

Background: Red

Arrows: White path arrows

Fire hydrants are painted bright red and often installed above ground on sandy or paved roadsides.

They are usually surrounded by protective bollards—white or yellow posts—to prevent vehicle damage

Background: White

Arrows: Thin red (Bold variants are possible but rare)

Transformer islands are usually bare concrete platforms in the middle of sandy roadside areas, sometimes containing utility boxes, markers, or bollards.

The islands are not landscaped and just functional concrete or asphalt structures separating lanes, protecting signage, or covering underground service access

You can sometimes find rifts in old-generation Google panoramas

Big and wide metal dumpsters are also common near construction sites or apartment blocks.

Sometimes they have chevrons with white background and red diagonal lines

Color: Blue

Text: White in Arabic and English

Additional details: Highway variant has green rectangle with yellow numbers usually placed on top of the direction sign

Utility poles connected with an X (double or triple) can be found in Oman but not in the UAE

Background: Blue

Arrows: Bold yellow

Camera: Trekker

Car: No car — the camera is carried by a person

Additional details: Captured on foot with a Generation 3 backpack trekker

Shape: Rectangle

Color: Red paint

Text: Latin letter is painted at the top of the attachment, followed by a horizontal dividing line, and below it numbers. White color

Outer lines: Yellow

Center lines: Yellow

Rare (mostly white center) but possible. In Oman you can't find yellow center lines