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Tag: google maps

  • Google Maps search results for 'Indian' jumping to India, overlaid with a facepalm.

    Indian Food

    On our last day out at our current AirBnB, we searched for a takeaway.

    Google Maps found me a Chinese takeaway, but it had an unexpected suggestion when I asked for an Indian...

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    • Note
    • posted 8 April, 2026
  • I know how I'm SUPPOSED to read it, but when I see this I can't help but imagine a conversation like...

    "What shall we call our car wash?"

    /waves hand/ "I dunno."

    Full image of Google Maps screenshot showing the location of a business seemingly called Waves Hand Car Wash Cheltenham.
    Alt

    Google Maps screenshot showing the location of a business seemingly called Waves Hand Car Wash Cheltenham.

    • Note
    • posted 12 July, 2025
  • OpenStreetMap view of a rural village, showing named houses, public footpaths criss-crossing around fields, streams, and hedgerows.

    OpenStreetMap rocks (especially on foot)

    OpenStreetMap blows Google Maps out of the water for walkers and also for if you're trying to find a particular-named house in a rural area. I'm not saying never to use Google Maps (there's plenty of things it's the king at): but maybe consider giving OpenStreetMap a go next time you need a digital map?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (748 words)

    • Article
    • posted 23 February, 2025
  • Newspaper in the 16-bit pixel-art art style of Sid Meier's Civilization, titled The Final Broadsheet, published February 1 2025 AD. The headline is "Donald Trump claims domination victory", with the subheadline "Google Maps now shows 100% of world is part of America". Below is the pixel-art portrait of Trump and a pixel-art world map with a stars-and-stripes pattern applied to the entire world. A pullquote reads "That's not how any of this works! - rest of world". A secondary story has the headline "Putin, Netanyahu, demand do-ver: 'We didn't realise you could invade places by just renaming them yours!'".

    Trump's Strategy

    I've worked out what convicted felon Donald Trump's endgame strategy is! And I can explain it... through the medium of a comic in the art style of Sid Meier's Civilization!

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    • Article
    • posted 31 January, 2025
  • KML from Google is coverted into GPX where it joins GPX from my GPSr and real-time position data from uLogger in a MySQL database. This is queried against historic hashpoints to produce a list of candidate accidental hashpoints.

    Accidental Geohashing

    Dan mines his own geoposition data of the last decade to ask: did I ever accidentally visit a geohashpoint? Turns out... maybe. Ish.

    Read more - about 9 minutes (1934 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 October, 2020
  • Google Maps vs Apple Maps

    Google Maps's Moat

    Google Maps’s Moat (Justin O’Beirne) How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?


    Over the past year, we’ve been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London—but some of the biggest differences are outside of large cities.
    Take my childhood neighborhood in rural Illinois. Here …

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 December, 2017
  • "River Test" highlighted on a map

    I found a debugging river that the mods left in by accident!

    Alt"River Test" highlighted on a map

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    • Repost
    • posted 1 June, 2013
  • TIL that the Malaysian government is one of few who HAVEN'T asked Google to censor satellite photos of sensitive areas, because they feel that to do so would make it MORE obvious where the sensitive areas are!

    MALAYSIA will not ask Google Earth to blur images of the country’s military facilities to avoid terrorist attacks. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said doing so would indirectly pin-point their location anyway.

    "The difference in, or lack of, pixelation of images of the military facilities compared to the surrounding areas will make it easy for …

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    • Repost
    • posted 19 December, 2012
  • Map of the 2012 Free Fringe.

    Edinburgh Free Fringe 2012 Venue Map

    To help him get around the Free Fringe in Edinburgh this year, Dan's made a map of all of the Free Fringe venues, with links to all of their events. And you can see it too.

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    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 25 July, 2012
  • Image representing post: 8-Bit Google Maps

    8-Bit Google Maps

    Google Maps have started providing an "8-Bit Edition", with retro-RPG-style map graphics, Dan observes.

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    • Article
    • posted 31 March, 2012

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