This is a very interesting project and I had a lot of fun playing with it.
A note though: all place names in Arabic are wrongly displayed.
Take Morocco for example. The Arabic name is المغرب.
It is wrongly displayed as something like ال م غ رب (letters are not attached together; I added zero-width space to force the letter to not be attached). And probably worse than that, the letters are displayed from left to right instead of right to left. You end up with something like ب رغ م ل ا.
This makes the native place names almost unreadable.
There probably is a similar directionality issue for other right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew), but I cannot read Hebrew enough to quickly check!
This post that deals with displaying Arabic appeared on HN some times ago and may be of help! [1]
A note though: all place names in Arabic are wrongly displayed.
Take Morocco for example. The Arabic name is المغرب.
It is wrongly displayed as something like ال م غ رب (letters are not attached together; I added zero-width space to force the letter to not be attached). And probably worse than that, the letters are displayed from left to right instead of right to left. You end up with something like ب رغ م ل ا.
This makes the native place names almost unreadable.
There probably is a similar directionality issue for other right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew), but I cannot read Hebrew enough to quickly check!
This post that deals with displaying Arabic appeared on HN some times ago and may be of help! [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544990