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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…
Someone's about to get fired.
Just for fun speculation. What if someone realized that Google is scraping/using his data. Then he decided to put in a "honeytoken" to check this assumption and at the same time pull a prank on Google. Once he realized that his assumption was correct, he published the coordinates -- as a mini revenge. Of course this is just some idle speculation, but I have seen honeytoken entries in printed dictionaries for example.
Known as Trap Streets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street ) in the map-making trade.
140 points, new poster, #1 in about 30 minutes Nope hn isn't being gamed by trolls at all.
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...
Southern Europe (mostly around Catalonia) has a similar curiosity which has after 100s of years become a tradition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer I wonder which cultural oddities today will be commonly accepted 100 years from now, or whether the globalization will eventually homogenize such local customs, so instead of "memes" living locally for 100s of years they get global exposure and die out within a month…
Lame. That engineer was full of imagination.
The region south east of the marker looks like someone imported test data.. street 1, street 2, district, quickly mart, .....
The region south east of the marker looks like someone imported test data.. street 1, street 2, district, quickly mart, .....
Either they have something akin to Las Vegas in Pakistan, either there is someting very weird with this data.
Don't use OpenStreetMap they said, anyone can edit that and vandalised it they said, it will be full of errors and inaccuracies they said.
I checked the history of the place on OSM and I found nothing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/33.514583/73.059222