Thursday 28 March 2013

University of Headington

Lots of new features since we posted last. The most visible is perhaps the layouts of malls, as demonstrated here with the One New Change development, grimly ironically situated next to St Paul's.

It looks quite spiffy, doesn't it? It's good that they have got to this level of fine detail because it means they have finally sorted out more basic levels of general data quality issues?

What's that you say?

You're fairly sure that Headington and Leigh-on-Sea shouldn't be on this map; and wouldn't Oxford and Southend would be more worthy of captioning at this zoom level?

And you're not sure about whether the Yorkshire Dales should be labelled at all, but if they do it probably shouldn't be as the "Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority" but the "Yorkshire Dales", for crying out loud does anyone do any QA on these at all before pushing them live this is seriously going to damage Google's fast-diminishing reputation if it keeps up? Sorry, you seem to have got into a bit of a stream of a consciousness babble there. But I get that you're unhappy. Tell you what, why don't you wait until the next set of tile revisions, in a couple of months. I'm sure it will be all fixed then!