To follow up the point on where the names are, turns out you need to
be in the right language:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/09/israel-gets-street-maps.html
I think we should call Google the Elephant In The Room. Makes me think
of:
"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to
too much money, too much equipment, and, little by little, we went
insane." --Coppola
On 5 Sep 2008, at 11:26, Mikel Maron wrote:
> 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
>
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