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This has absolutely nothing to do with the substance of the story but I got hung up on this bit: > and is so small that Google Street View doesn't cover the wh

This has absolutely nothing to do with the substance of the story but I got hung up on this bit: > and is so small that Google Street View doesn't cover the whole town. ...which is a weird way to emphasize a town's smallness. Is the idea that the driver of the Google maps car got halfway through and said, you know, this town is so small, I'm not even going to drive the rest of the way down the street! Or they were so overcome with small-town charm they just stopped the car and bought a house there or what

synu 4y ago
I read it as it was so insignificant they didn’t schedule a car to map the whole town in the first place.
Symbiote 4y ago
It looks like they've recorded pictures while driving through, but haven't taken the time to drive around the town. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farmington+State+Bank/@47.0927962,-117.0536305,15.33z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x549fc18f6c3073ab:0x290af4105ea5b988!8m2!3d47.0899838!4d-117.0472686 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farmington+State+Bank/@47....
cratermoon 4y ago
For anyone familiar with the American west (starting somewhere between the Mississippi and the 100th meridian west ), there are hundreds, if not thousands of small towns for which Google Street View has only pass through on the main street, which is typically the state or county road. They don't turn off on any side streets. If you go to these towns, and I have done thousands of miles of driving around the West, far from the Interstates, these side roads turn often turn out to be barely-defined dirt, or maybe gravel, turnoffs. Often they just go a few blocks and end. An urban dweller might not even recognize them as side roads, because they blend seamlessly with the lots around the few buildings, and often you'll see cars, farm equipment, or other miscellaneous items strewn haphazardly. The other thing you'll find way out in those parts of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon are right-wing anti-government militia types. People who listen to Fox News and think it's too liberal. QAnon types who follow Alex Jones and watch OANN. Could that be the connection?

synu 4y ago

I read it as it was so insignificant they didn’t schedule a car to map the whole town in the first place.

Symbiote 4y ago

It looks like they've recorded pictures while driving through, but haven't taken the time to drive around the town. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farmington+State+Bank/@47.0927962,-117.0536305,15.33z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x549fc18f6c3073ab:0x290af4105ea5b988!8m2!3d47.0899838!4d-117.0472686 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farmington+State+Bank/@47....

cratermoon 4y ago

For anyone familiar with the American west (starting somewhere between the Mississippi and the 100th meridian west ), there are hundreds, if not thousands of small towns for which Google Street View has only pass through on the main street, which is typically the state or county road. They don't turn off on any side streets. If you go to these towns, and I have done thousands of miles of driving around the West, far from the Interstates, these side roads turn often turn out to be barely-defined dirt, or maybe gravel, turnoffs. Often they just go a few blocks and end. An urban dweller might not even recognize them as side roads, because they blend seamlessly with the lots around the few buildings, and often you'll see cars, farm equipment, or other miscellaneous items strewn haphazardly. The other thing you'll find way out in those parts of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon are right-wing anti-government militia types. People who listen to Fox News and think it's too liberal. QAnon types who follow Alex Jones and watch OANN. Could that be the connection?