{"id":120,"date":"2007-02-08T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T10:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-02-08T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T10:49:03","slug":"google-maps-puzzler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/120-google-maps-puzzler.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps puzzler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ran into this puzzler today:<\/p>\n

\"Google <\/p>\n

I could not persuade Google Maps that it knew where Mansfield is. I mean Mansfield in Nottinghamshire; but even when I typed in “Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK”, Google Maps professed ignorance – although I could easily scroll to the actual location on the map itself by the strategy of searching for another place first. No doubt there are other Mansfields in the world – but why not a disambiguation menu?<\/p>\n

Eventuall I tried Mansfield, UK and it worked. Except that the position is miles out:<\/p>\n

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I guess Google Maps just doesn’t like Mansfield. Microsoft’s local.live.com<\/a> had no problems.<\/p>\n

I’m sure a postcode would have worked; but these are not always conveniently at hand.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: google<\/a>, google maps<\/a>, live.com<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ran into this puzzler today: I could not persuade Google Maps that it knew where Mansfield is. I mean Mansfield in Nottinghamshire; but even when I typed in “Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK”, Google Maps professed ignorance – although I could easily scroll to the actual location on the map itself by the strategy of searching for … Continue reading Google Maps puzzler<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}