The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.
> 967 days , 2068 total edits, 717 reviews
that's one trusted editor.
Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
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Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#132The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.
Another one here, same editor:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#133Don't use OpenStreetMap they said, anyone can edit that and vandalised it they said, it will be full of errors and inaccuracies they said.
Something similar happened when a Google Street View image of a chap being 'seen to' by a prostitute soared in popularity a few years ago in my home town. The name of the street was, for a few hours, known as 'handjob ally'.
For a while, a local park here was labeled "Dog Poop Park".
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#134Another gem here :) https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.50087...
Do you essentially have to be a Google employee to do this? I remember a few years ago when I annotated some custom maps, but no one ever saw my annotations publicly. Also my annotations were running routes and forest trails that weren't marked on maps at the time.
I submitted a fix to google maps, where they were forcing people to detour around a perfectly straight section of rural highway because it was marked as impassable.
Imagine my surprise when I got an email ONE YEAR LATER saying "your revision has been accepted!"
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Have you ever worked for a large company before? There's nothing management loves more than access controls. There are whole software products available, like Confluence, that do nothing but take good open source offerings like various wikis and make it so management has to set permissions for every user for every page to do anything at all. Then whenever you need to make a change it takes a week of meetings to get e…
Confluence is awesome, we use it in our company and every user can edit every page (that's how it's set out of the box!). This works great for us and our size.
To bash on Confluence just because your management has set restrictive policies seems a bit unfair.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#136The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.
He apparently got a "skype" logo through too:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lahore+District,+Pakistan/...
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#137Can'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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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.
Wikipedia is actually pretty bad, try following up on any of the references. If they're web references, the chances of it being a 404 page are almost 100% in my experience. Not to mention the editors being almost all white men and the opaque process that limits most "non-male" topics: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-college-classes-... Wikipedia is basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. Se…
>Wikipedia is no substitute for a real subject encyclopedia.
Who says it is? It's for quick pointers.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you essentially have to be a Google employee to do this? I remember a few years ago when I annotated some custom maps, but no one ever saw my annotations publicly. Also my annotations were running routes and forest trails that weren't marked on maps at the time.
I submitted a fix to google maps, where they were forcing people to detour around a perfectly straight section of rural highway because it was marked as impassable. Imagine my surprise when I got an email ONE YEAR LATER saying "your revision has been accepted!"
I submitted a fix to google maps where a bus stop in my neighborhood was missing. About 6 months later I got an email saying "for technical reasons we cannot fix this."
All the other apps that show bus stops have the stop.
I just don't use google maps for transportation stuff. City Mapper is my goto app for that.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#140Can'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…
and there is a Skype logo too http://goo.gl/jOk19o and a happy face http://goo.gl/Z4AHB6
It looks like a user had enough reputation to add things without review.