Interesting location choice ... right down the capital of Pakistan and next to the airport. Whatever this is, I think this was not meant to be hidden.
I thought the point of putting it in Pakistan was to hide it
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Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mort_aux_Juifs They had some weird tastes in city names back then
Careful, you might end up in a https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8947544,-78.5993332,20z
http://tinyurl.com/63byd
Its a real town in Austria. I'm just pretty sure I'd be flagged as offensive if I posted the Wikipedia link directly :-)
But the above link is to Wikipedia.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#143Another gem here :) https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.50087...
This one seems to be just from an anonymous user:
https://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&uid=204099722752622045...
Also, this edit was already marked as spam it seems.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I wish Apple would do the obvious thing and allow 3rd party apps to send public transport data directly to the official Maps app, via a new extension point. That way, if you have the right apps, everything would always be up to date, and maybe you'd even be able to see things like real-time bus and subway markers if your public transit apps supported tracking! Google has some amazing technology, but their web-based infrastructure simply would not allow them to create a decentralized system like this — whereas it's right in Apple's wheelhouse.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was being sarcastic about the view of many that Google and other commercial maps must be better just because they are commercial. OSM is not without its own share of vandalism, but it is rare and usually hidden somewhere.
Google maps has tons of user generated content through Mapmaker. http://www.google.com/mapmaker
Yeah, it makes me sad how people actually enjoy feeding a proprietary data silo instead of providing their knowledge to everyone for free in open projects.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.
Well, I certainly wouldn't use it without crosschecking facts ;)
Do you cross-check everything else?
I'm sure it depends in what capacity the information is "used", right?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.
Ironically, many pages of Wikipedia are useless because they're so difficult to permanently change...
Wikipedia + the talk pages is closer to an ideal encyclopedia.
One of the major criticism of Wikipedia is that it preempts the possibility of having multiple encyclopedias, and thus multiple points of view. But, once you consider the talk pages, you not only restore the multiple points of view, but you also get to witness the contests between them. In that way, at least, this is better than having multiple encyclopedias.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#148Doesn't seem to have been added in map maker. At least i can't see a history. Go home Larry, you're drunk.
Well, half right.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful, you might end up in a https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8947544,-78.5993332,20z
http://tinyurl.com/63byd Its a real town in Austria. I'm just pretty sure I'd be flagged as offensive if I posted the Wikipedia link directly :-) But the above link is to Wikipedia.
Short links are way more offensive than words. Here's the direct link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria
Apparently it is good for the tourism industry, people even used to steal the Fucking signs.
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#150Proof that Pakistan is harboring terrorists ;)