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The region south east of the marker looks like someone imported test data.. street 1, street 2, district, quickly mart, .....
"The mall of district", "eiffel tower", "statue of liberty". Either they have something akin to Las Vegas in Pakistan, either there is someting very weird with this data.
Can't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
If it were believed that this was an official work by Android, I bet the comments would be much different. However, as it does not look official, the comments in this article cannot be compared to the comments on an article relating to what you describe.
EDIT: For those who can't see the link, the map says "GOOGLE REVIEW POLICY IS CRAP :(".
Someone's about to get fired.
One can only hope that if this was intentionally done by an employee, they would be punished and possibly let go. This sort of thing is childish, unnecessary, and has no place in a professional organization. Quasi-related: http://jenmylo.com/2015/03/23/defending-drupal/
At best, this is a digital-urine covered Easter egg. At worst, it's a tasteless prank that will likely have repercussions for it's creator. And the level of effort required to complete this is unequal to it's hilariousness, so if nothing else, I find it likely whomever is responsible for this wastes a bunch of other time and resources in similar, unproductive, disrespectful avenues.
I harken this is paying homage to those tacky stickers of Calvin having a piss on Ford and Chevy emblems that we all knew someone with in high-school. Eventually, we are supposed to outgrow these immature micro-aggressions and graduate to being loving, compassionate, contributing members of our communities.
It's sad, really, when jokes like this are glorified instead of recognized for what they are – one person's only creative outlet for their inability to cope with being a misfit where they are.
Or maybe it's just a robot pissing on an apple.
Can't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
For one thing, it doesn't looked like Google/Android did this at all. As others have said, it looks like someone has falsely contributed to the map and got past the review. Such an examples is pointed out by andrea_s here[1] (it is around the same area as the original link). If it were believed that this was an official work by Android, I bet the comments would be much different. However, as it does not look official…
(Personally, I don't see any reason to be outraged about it, and wouldn't be surprised if they don't see this as a reason to even bother about their review process. If it is a volunteer they will ban them, if it is an employee they will hopefully explain that they don't get to make a similar error of judgement again, or perhaps fire them.)
media: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/24/google-map... http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/04/24/theres-an-android-pe... http://mashable.com/2015/04/24/android-bot-peeing-on-apple-l... "Update: A Google spokesperson got back to us, explaining that the image is likely a result of a user abusing Map Maker, the tool that allows everyone to contribute to Google Maps. "Even though edits are moderated, occasi…
And in the same area... https://goo.gl/maps/5t9br
Inspired by the "Peeing Calvin" stickers, which as far as I know is a distinctly American phenomenon. https://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-th...
Can't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
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I simply can't believe that they are "working on getting it removed". If it was a problem they didn't want the whole world to know about, it would've been removed the second they were made aware of the issue.
There are the requisite forms to fill out, approvals to be gathered - it's going to take some time...
Can't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
I'm an iPhone and Mac user and still the prank made me chuckle.