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Google maps's districts in Dublin are all over the place. Looking around the city centre at a certain magnification I can see names nobody ever uses, or that re
by dmurray 8y ago
Google maps's districts in Dublin are all over the place. Looking around the city centre at a certain magnification I can see names nobody ever uses, or that refer to individual buildings or tiny areas, shown as if they describe entire areas of the city. Maryland, Hybreasal, Cathal Brugha Barracks - roughly where I'd expect to see signs for The Coombe, Kilmainham, and Harold's Cross. If I zoom out, labels for Kilmainham and Harold's Cross appear. If I zoom in, Cathal Brugha Barracks changes from the "district" font to the font identifying a single landmark, and moves a couple of blocks to where the building actually is.
This must be one of the hard problems for computers, though it doesn't seem like it should be.
- thinkingemote 8y agoCould they be the official but unused townlands areas?
- dmurray 8y agoGood guess, but no. The names I mentioned don't appear here [0] as townlands, baronies or civil parishes. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_Dublin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_...