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2008-12-15 14:09:00 |
Has anyone else noticed, that Google Maps will show Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on the first zoom level (all good so far), but on many consecutive zoom levels, the choice of towns it elects to display gets quite bizarre. For example, it shows the town of Darfield, Canterbury before showing Whakatane or Wanganui. These are cities with populatiosn of 30-40k, and Google considers it more important to note the location of Normanby, Taranaki, (population 846). And woe betide anyone looking for Bluff; it shows some 'town' called West End well before you zoom in close enough for it to actually say 'Bluff' (apparently this refers to the West End of Bluff, I have discovered). By the time someone had zoomed in far enough for the thing to have started labelling the suburbs of Invercargill, anyone not knowing Bluff's approximate location would likely have started looking elsewhere. The map for Southland alone (I can't speak for the rest of the country as I don't know it well enough) would drive someone using it for travel nuts; it shows 'towns' that don't even exist as having the same importance as actual urban settlements.
I wonder if I should point all this out to them? Anyone else find any amusing/weird discrepencies in their home province? |
Kindel (6640) |