Does it really need to be pointed out that we're all thinking "Bowel Movement"? That's exactly what we're giving each other on a daily basis.
Just this morning, noticed that Google had added data for Israel and the West Bank. It's quite a bizarre data set .. no street names, sporadic West Bank coverage, an unexplained "P in a house" symbol (anyone?) This follows on from starting a project one month ago to map the West Bank for the public domain, using OSM tools. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.747128,35.199616&spn=0.01343,0.021887&z=16 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/08/17/1349 Coincidence? Was it also coincidence that Google Maps added data for the Isle of Man in the weeks following the complete release of Cloud Made's data set for the Isle of Man. Was it coincidence that Google launched MapMaker that allows anyone to edit the map, without mentioning any projects which for years had been telling Google, in good faith, how to do it? Is anyone satisfied that Google rushed to get maps of Georgia, which contain no roads, and photos from some photo service no one ever uses? I'm going to go add an easter egg to OSM right now "Larry and Sergey were here, 2003". http://aidworkerdaily.com/2008/09/05/new-data-for-georgia-in-google-earth/#comments I even read that Google Chrome comic. And it's pretty good. But then they say things like "Fortunately, here at Google, we have an equally massive infrastructure for crawling web pages." Good for you, Mr GoogleBot. Fortunately you're not here in person so I can equally massive your ass. Metaphorically of course. And is anyone fooled that privacy mode is about anything else than pr0n? If you think I'm picking on Google, they're just the biggest and best target. The BM comes equally from freetards, startups, angry Jordanian colonels, mismanaged charities, beauracratic nightmare international organizations. I'll leave that rant to you. It makes me wonder when some of the best work I've seen last year happened in a city which only exists for one week. And this is when we're facing the prospect of a world which looks like a desert all year round, except there's no oil for generators, no 1.5 gallon bottles of water, and you hate all your neighbors. So stock pile your gold, buy weapons to defend it and sit tight, while I travel next to some forlorn, under seige, dusty part of the world to GPS map sheep where people somehow seem to be happier than plasma screen watching, hockey mom horrors. ----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Larcombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 5, 2008 9:34:33 AM Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Geowanking at BM? On 3 Sep 2008, at 04:56, Tyler Bell wrote: > And here I thought by 'BM' you were referring to 'British Museum'... You and me both... -- Andrew Larcombe Freelance Geospatial, Database & Web Programming web: http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk : http://blog.andrewl.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mob: +44 (7760) 258623 icq: 306690163 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
