[Cialug] Middle "West" not "East"

[Tim Wilson]

Still, it's odd that Google put an Arabic title on *that* Bethlehem but not
on Bethlehem, PA.  And that's a much bigger town, you'd think Google would
want that town to have other languages.

If you go to street view, and go exactly to that spot, there appears to be a
church on the south side of the road.  Perhaps it is a church of a
middle-eastern religion?  It looks pretty Christian, but I guess someone
could have bought it and converted it.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:

> On 5/17/2010 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Todd Walton<tdwalton at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Just to the left of the "A" marker on this map:
> >>
> >>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.841152,-93.209081&num=1&sll=40.842872,-93.212128&sspn=0.024414,0.055747&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.842872,-93.212128&spn=0.023538,0.055661&z=15
> >>
> >> there's what looks like Arabic script.  Funny.
> >
> > It's hard to tell because the script is so small, but it's likely that
> > it's Arabic for "Bethlehem"
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem
> >
> > According to some of the other maps I looked at there's a small
> > unincorporated town named Bethelhem/Bethlehem located there.
>
> Good eyes! Interestingly, Google maps knows the location by both
> spellings. A mile or so to the south of that spot is Bethlehem Cemetery,
> so I'd bet on "Bethlehem".
>
> The Arabic /is/ surprising. (Isn't technology wonderful?)
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