You may recall our post a few hours ago about the first car rally in Ireland: the Gordon Bennett Race of 1903.
Well.
Geoff Hamilton has located Naas (top) and Whites Castle, Athy (above).
Nice.
Earlier: Ireland’s First car Rally, 1902.
Tag Archives: Google Maps
Since when did @dublinzoo move to temple bar? #googlemaps twitter.com/fit_gurl/statu…
— Olga NíGíorra (@fit_gurl) September 20, 2012
David Keeling writes:
Inception-style perspective on Google Maps, Harcourt St [Dublin].
@broadsheet_ie more missing towns, where are Navan & Kells gone? Maybe the IMF are renaming towns around the country! twitter.com/colmgogan/stat…
— Colm Gogan (@colmgogan) July 13, 2012
Anyone?
Previously: Where’s Longford Gone?
The town is peculiarly referred to as ‘Prospect Wood.’ …Quite how the employees of Google Maps got the impression this town went by the name of a decade-old estate on the edge of the town is unknown at this stage.
Anyone?
Longford Snubbed By Google Maps (Longford Leader)
And what about Mallow?
Damien writes;
Have a look at Mallow. On the map it shows up as ‘Castlepark’ – which incidentally is just a 10 year old estate also.
Hmm.
Prepare yourself with searchable Google Maps of your town or city showing the location of cemeteries, grocery stores, police stations, military bases and everything else you’ll need to survive the relentless onslaught of the undead.
The Windows XP default desktop image ‘Bliss’ (from a photograph by Charles O’Rear, no seriously) compared to an actual Google Maps image of the same location in Sonoma California.
The reality is somewhat less blissful.
Merry pranksters at Fairfield College in Hamilton, New Zealand execute half a dozen classic ‘meat-‘n’-two-veg’ gags for the benefit of Google Maps.
The acting principal of the college was reportedly not amused. The fact that his name is Gerhard van Dyk has no bearing on this matter.
