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I'm sorry, but can someone paste the part of this article where Google announces anything about 400 years? I can't find it.
by raldi 14y ago
I'm sorry, but can someone paste the part of this article where Google announces anything about 400 years? I can't find it.
- prawks 14y agoI'm thinking it's a ploy to get people to read yet another criticism of Apple's new maps. We get it, they're bad. EDIT: Frankly, I think it's pretty hilarious this article is so long and formal.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI actually found this article to be the first one that didn't just criticize Apple, but actually made suggestions about how they should go about fixing it. It was rather interesting for someone like me who has no experience in map making, to see how much is really involved in digital cartography. edit: on a related note, I always took google maps for granted, but now that I realize how fantastic of an effort it must take to map the world to the degree they do, I have much more respect for it, and I think it is amazing in terms of "cataloging the worlds information".
- martian 14y agoThe Atlantic recently wrote up a nice piece on Google Maps. It explores just how complex the whole operation is, how many humans and machines are involved in making Google's maps... http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoVery interesting article, thanks for the read.
- vsl 14y agoThat article is a bit infamous for its over-the-top advertisement value by now. See e.g. http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=394 http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=394
- ubernostrum 14y agoHey now, only an average of 20% of all front-page stories in the past 24 hours have been bashing on the new maps app. That's tame by HN groupmind standards.
- laumars 14y agoGod I hate clickbait. Thanks for the warning though
- devindotcom 14y agoThis isn't some point-and-laugh thing. It's informative and interesting. If this is "long and formal" to you, I don't know what to say. It's like 500 words, and a bunch of it is bulleted points.
- mmariani 14y agoWelcome to basher news.
- theklub 14y agoGuess this means Apple really has taken over for Microsoft!
- mmariani 14y agoSure, you could say that. But what I really mean is that the average HNer shifted his focus. And that's plain sad.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI used to feel the same way. My memories from back in the day were all articles about crazy programming languages, and cool new things people were doing. But that's when I was just starting out. In retrospect, I don't think that Hacker News has changed much, those articles are still there, but now I just get suckered into these kinds of articles for some reason. I think most people here will find much the same, when you join, you find the cool stuff. As you stick around, you start to get pulled into the linkbait/news type articles. As I'm sure people think it had already gone downhill by the time I joined 1.5yrs ago...
- jrockway 14y agoI started disliking Apple way before it was cool.
- pagejim 14y agoIf you read the OP carefully, you will find that it is an implicit announcement. Google hasn't announced it explicitly. But the amount of hard work and time that they have put in, takes them years ahead. The number 400 is open to discussion and interpretations. Read some of the other comments to find out how it can be interpreted.
- raldi 14y agoLinkbait headline, got it.
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