Sunday 1 July 2012

I don't know why it's labelled with five

There are new tiles!

Firstly, let's compare the overall map of Britain and Ireland.

Changes in this are: the labelling of Glasgow (good), the replacement of a caption for Sheffield with Liverpool (fair enough), and the removal of a good chunk of the A1 road between Belfast and Dublin (less good). At the next zoom level I challenged the place name algorithm's decision to label Leap but not Norwich. They've decided to split the difference by labelling both Leap and Norwich.

If we zoom in to the Euston Road, we find all the minor defects I discovered in May continue to be present. There are two major changes. Firstly, the Midland Road has stopped being a B-road and started being unclassified. This is probably long-overdue. Secondly, the caption for St Pancras Parish Church has been replaced with one for the "Hotel Ibis London Euston St Pancras". This seems to be completely unhelpful, and could leads to all sorts of confusion vis a vis the actual St Pancras station, which is still not marked as a tube.

Back out again and looking at north-east London, we have the addition of a caption for "Brownswood Park", which at least exists, but still nothing for Hackney, Tottenham or Leyton. Another change is the downgrading of Camden Road from a "green" A-road to an orange one - indicating that it is no longer part of the Primary Route Network.

And finally, in the category of Weird Things, Harrods is labelled "5". I don't know why it's labelled with five. Perhaps she'll die. You can't click on it, and there's nothing obvious when you search for "5" and Harrods. Any guesses?