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This maze in the UK was made to celebrate Brunel's 200th birthday. Viewed (upside down!) in Google Maps.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous British engineer.
This is "The Great E-Maze".
Tatton Park is a historic estate in Cheshire, England, north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall; a medieval manor house, Tatton Old Hall; Tatton Park Gardens, a farm and a deer park of 2,000 acres. It is a popular visitor attraction and hosts over a hundred events annually. The estate is owned by the National Trust and is managed under lease by Cheshire East Council. Since 1999, it has hosted North West England's annual Royal Horticultural Society flower show.
Strange markings on the ground. I'm thinking, alien spaceport or a sacred precinct of the Knights Templar.
Newsflash!:
Google today reveals that the Camden Town tube station has been demolished! Google maps employs sophisticated algorithms to analyse web patterns and user behaviour, allowing them to update their maps of the area to reflect reality before the news gets out on any other channels.
Residents and businesses in around Camden are today in a state of denial about the reality of the situation, as this busy transport hub has been removed. The lack of a station at this location will also mean that passengers wishing to to travel to different branches of the northern line will no longer be able to change. Choose your train wisely.
When asked to explain, a TfL spokesman also tried to deny that changes to London transport network had taken place. But there can be no cover-up of this. The truth is right there on google maps!
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But seriously...
This a pretty serious navigational problem. Do you link to google maps when you email a friend with directions? Are you using google maps on your website? If you do this in the Camden area you may not be being as helpful as you thought you were. Maybe it's time to use a better map, the open licensed map from the London-born not-for-profit OpenStreetMap.
I was certain I didn't have a drinking problem in college because all my friends drank more.
Things have changed, but this is how I (vaguely) remember it.
Google maps view of van that has just departed 1554 Walnut Avenue, Antioch, CA, the home of sex offender Phillip Garrido.
BB blog post:
I spent 2 years at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, doing my graduate studies. Looking back I think I must have spent 90 percent of the time in labs and libraries. I had no life besides studying, no car besides Garg's and Puri's, and no money to go out. But I think I had the best time of my life there!
It's fascinating how much of my pre-California life revolved around this relatively small section of Denver.
I was sending someone directions to my office, and I noticed that the placemark that Google Maps puts on the map of the office address is more accurate. It used to be nearby on Route 9, but is now exactly on my building.
Back in November 2007, Google introduced a feature to allow editing of addresses and other information by anyone with a Google account. When viewing a placemark, you can now click "Edit" and move it to the right place. You can also see the history of the edits, which appears in this picture in reverse-chronological order.
You can see Google's original guess with the gray arrow in the lower picture. It looks like it was moved three times: to the right spot in November, a little off the right spot in January, and then back to the right spot in March.
Community editing is often abused, but I'm coming to expect this degree of interactivity from websites. When I see something amiss, I'm frustrated when there's not a "submit correction" or at least a "flag spam" link. In this case, I was the happy beneficiary of my peer's contributions.