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Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
- aslammuet 11y agoIt's unbelievable, still present.
- joshuapants 11y agoI wonder if someone sneaked this in or if it was sanctioned
- chadscira 11y agoIn case this gets removed: http://img42.com/2Jzkn+ http://img42.com/2Jzkn+
- userbinator 11y agoIn case you'd prefer a direct link to an image instead of a page that requires JS to show an image: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/553a1dfbdd0895d5058b4600-1200-667/screen%20shot%202015-04-24%20at%2011.15.56.png http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/553a1dfbdd0895d5058...
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- westoque 11y agoSomeone's about to get fired.
- jblz 11y agoOne can only hope that if this was intentionally done by an employee, they would be punished and possibly let go. This sort of thing is childish, unnecessary, and has no place in a professional organization. Quasi-related: http://jenmylo.com/2015/03/23/defending-drupal/ http://jenmylo.com/2015/03/23/defending-drupal/
- stinos 11y agochildish? That is open for discussion.. unnecessary? Definitely. funny? Again open for discussion, but I'm in the yes-camp for this one (even though I don't own Android nor Apple products - or maybe that just is the reason). There's enough sadness and evil in the world already, some harmless fun from time to time won't exactly make it a better place but hey, a smile is better than nothing.
- pissonurpost 11y agoFired? Really? Wow, I guess the Apple fantards have no sense of humour. Must come from having the 'genius' at the Apple store out-smug them!
- blago 11y agoDo you have to make it personal and insult your opponents? EDIT: I cannot conceive a possible reason why this comment is down-voted. Penalizing well meaning and polite discourse is counter intuitive... in the universe I live.
- DanBC 11y agoWhy are you replying to an obvious troll?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- ncocacola 11y agoWhat's wrong with a little bit of fun? Who's getting harmed here? How could this possibly have offended you enough that you'd hope someone would get fired over it?
- jblz 11y agoIt's not a matter of me being offended (I'm not), I would just hope the company I worked for wouldn't stand for something as vulgar, primitive, and blatantly aggressive toward a competitor as this in a public, flagship product.
- zuron7 11y agoI don't think so. Map Maker is mostly moderated by the community, so Google might not have had any doing in this. Could have been one guy with multiple accounts doing legitimate edits for a long time just so he can do this once.
- watmough 11y agoBad Google!
- buro9 11y agoDid a member of the public edit the map to add forests to make this? Or is someone about to get fired for a very poor easter egg decision?
- TruthSHIFT 11y agoI'm disappointed this doesn't appear in Satellite view. This prank is only half done.
- tomcart 11y agoDoesn't seem to have been added in map maker. At least i can't see a history. Go home Larry, you're drunk.
- tomcart 11y agoWell, half right.
- userbinator 11y agoInspired by the "Peeing Calvin" stickers, which as far as I know is a distinctly American phenomenon. https://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-the-peeing-calvin-decal https://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-th...
- dijit 11y agodefinitely not, in Britain they're very commonly wearing football jerseys and peeing on the oppositions jersey. edit: I'm wrong, seems like there are a multitude of "piss on your rivals jersey" paraphernalia but it's not calvin.
- sspiff 11y agoThey're very common in Belgium (Western Europe) as well, though most people who use them have no idea of the origin. They just thinks it looks rebellious. I find those stickers extremely annoying, since they conflict with how I know and love the Calvin character.
- stinos 11y agoSome of them are sort of funny, but others don't come even close (imo): peeing on speed limit signs (amount of deaths due to speeding is not laughable), peeing on the police (sure some minority migh be assholes but the majority I have met really do want to help people - and yeah they also enforce speed limits which, even though I completely understand how nice it feels to go insanely fast, are there for a reason) etc.
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- anc84 11y agoDon't use OpenStreetMap they said, anyone can edit that and vandalised it they said, it will be full of errors and inaccuracies they said.
- madez 11y agoAlso, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.
- V-2 11y agoWell, I certainly wouldn't use it without crosschecking facts ;)
- nfoz 11y agoDo you cross-check everything else? I'm sure it depends in what capacity the information is "used", right?
- sirsuki 11y agoSomething I never understood. When referencing a "real" encyclopedia you have to include the revision number thus if information changes in later revisions your citation remains intact. Wikipedia is exactly the same. When you cite Wikipedia you should include the revision number so that if it changes (as it frequently does) you haven't lost the text referenced. Could higher change frequency provide higher mis-information? Sure but a "real" encyclopedia has the same problem (maybe at a smaller scale) So in either case you have to either pay someone to fact check (like most encyclopedia companies do and could easily be done for Wikipedia) and/or do the fact check yourself. The later being the core at Wikipedia culture^[citation needed].
- V-2 11y agoAny real encyclopedias where hoaxes would not get corrected for years? See http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/... - it's been featured on the main page just a few days ago. The same article points out that the editors-to-articles ratio has been rapidly falling from 2007 to 2014 (it bounced back a little this year, but it's too early to say if it isn't just a fluke).
- comrade1 11y agoA robot peeing? Preposterous!
- macintux 11y agoI'm still shocked that someone explicitly vomited in a Disney film. (Granted, it was a robot vomiting gears in Lilo & Stitch, but still.)
- 67years 11y agoWay to go Android!! Way to go!!
- gchokov 11y agoLame. That engineer was full of imagination.
- seba_dos1 11y agoWell, it could be a dick.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoThat's uncool. I'm not really a fan of either...its still uncool.
- namikaze 11y agoIts playful though a bit salty. I hope nobody gets fired.
- st3fan 11y agoImmature. Unprofessional.
- pissonurpost 11y agoI agree, your comment does seem immature.
- nodejsisbest 11y agoPreach it brother.
- lotsofcows 11y agoUnprofessional? It's really well drawn?
- 13 11y agoYou can spent hours making a very large effigy of your rival depicted as a phallus with gold trim and rubies: being a work of art doesn't make it any less unprofessional.
- blueatlas 11y agoThat cannot possibly be meant to be the Apple logo. It's just an Android peeing on a real apple that someone took a bite out of.
- mahouse 11y agoNext time you bite an apple, think you could be sued.
- piyush_soni 11y agoWell, Apple has already been doing that, and that's not even a bitten Apple. :) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/apfelkind-cafe-trademark-battle-apple-germany http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/apfelkind-cafe-...
- uladzislau 11y agoIs it even real? If it is - it's factastically detailed and someone spent lots of hours in making it look how it looks ;)
- drewhk 11y agoJust for fun speculation. What if someone realized that Google is scraping/using his data. Then he decided to put in a "honeytoken" to check this assumption and at the same time pull a prank on Google. Once he realized that his assumption was correct, he published the coordinates -- as a mini revenge. Of course this is just some idle speculation, but I have seen honeytoken entries in printed dictionaries for example.
- bambax 11y agoBut if that were the case, wouldn't they be pissing on Google's logo instead?
- Rafert 11y agoThese are known as trap streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- BenDaglish 11y agoHaha - beat me to it!
- BenDaglish 11y agoKnown as Trap Streets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street) in the map-making trade.
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- andreamazz 11y agoI guess that technically it's leaking, not peeing.
- mrpopo 11y agoInteresting location choice ... right down the capital of Pakistan and next to the airport. Whatever this is, I think this was not meant to be hidden.
- wehadfun 11y agoI thought the point of putting it in Pakistan was to hide it
- Gurrewe 11y agoA not so well hidden paper town? Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
- itg 11y ago140 points, new poster, #1 in about 30 minutes Nope hn isn't being gamed by trolls at all.
- JosephRedfern 11y agoIn what way could this be construed as trolling? If OP had linked to some fake google maps imitation (https://maps.google.fake.com https://maps.google.fake.com), I could see your point - but this is live on the real Google Maps. I would argue that it is interesting, regardless of how it got there.
- pella 11y agomedia: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/24/google-maps-hides-an-image-of-the-android-robot-pissing-on-apple http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/24/google-map... http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/04/24/theres-an-android-peeing-on-apple-on-google-maps-and-we-cant-figure-out-why/ http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/04/24/theres-an-android-pe... http://mashable.com/2015/04/24/android-bot-peeing-on-apple-logo-google-maps/ http://mashable.com/2015/04/24/android-bot-peeing-on-apple-l... "Update: A Google spokesperson got back to us, explaining that the image is likely a result of a user abusing Map Maker, the tool that allows everyone to contribute to Google Maps. "Even though edits are moderated, occasionally the odd inaccurate or cheeky edit may slip through our system," he said in a statement to Mashable. "We've been made aware of the issue and are working on getting it removed.""
- nyrina 11y agoI simply can't believe that they are "working on getting it removed". If it was a problem they didn't want the whole world to know about, it would've been removed the second they were made aware of the issue.
- maxerickson 11y agoWhy would you expect every random employee to have the necessary access to expedite such a change? It's 5 AM in Mountain View, they probably have to get someone out of bed. Also, I imagine they would like to figure out where it came from, which may or may not complicate the removal, who knows.
- cmor 11y agoThe region south east of the marker looks like someone imported test data.. street 1, street 2, district, quickly mart, .....
- maxerickson 11y agoTo me this looks like one crowd sourced editor (the one drawing the Android) getting frustrated with another (the one drawing a bunch of complete nonsense) and doing something outlandish to bring attention to the area.
- Angostura 11y agoLooks more like it is large new building project and the streets haven't been named yet.
- malka 11y ago"The mall of district", "eiffel tower", "statue of liberty". Either they have something akin to Las Vegas in Pakistan, either there is someting very weird with this data.
- hias 11y agoCheck the satellite view and the real life pictures, seems real to me. WTF :D
- arthurpaul 11y agoData are correct, there is a replica of Eiffel tower in that area: http://goo.gl/xzWAqE http://goo.gl/xzWAqE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahria_Town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahria_Town
- davidw 11y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=bahria+town+statue+of+liberty&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=962&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3EE6VcacLYWpsgHMzoGAAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ https://www.google.com/search?q=bahria+town+statue+of+libert... - statue of liberty looks real too. Weird!
- c_plus_minus 11y agoCan't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
- aslammuet 11y agoWhy he choose Pakistan?
- emodendroket 11y agoI'm guessing that it's easier to sneak bogus edits in for Pakistan than for, say, New York City.
- yitchelle 11y agoand maybe not too obscure so that it will be seen eventually.
- arthurpaul 11y agoit looks like the user who did the edit was from Pakistan
- SalimoS 11y agoSo true
- zecg 11y agoBecause, a peeing apple? It's not anthropomorphic enough, it's just silly.
- icebraining 11y agoFanboyism aside, Apple does have a more serious image, so a similar prank would seem more like an attack than a playful jab.
- collyw 11y agoDo you think? I always found Apples approach to knocking Windows pretty childish.
- yuashizuki 11y agodont be evil.
- toomim 11y agoThis makes me sad because I care about apple, and wish android cared about apple too.
- psteynza 11y agoFantastic. Appletards got rekt
- ilamparithi 11y agoAnother gem here :) https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.5008728,73.1259811,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x38dff298d82d62c9:0xdd99b92ec4539b33 https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.50087...
- joeblau 11y agoDo you essentially have to be a Google employee to do this? I remember a few years ago when I annotated some custom maps, but no one ever saw my annotations publicly. Also my annotations were running routes and forest trails that weren't marked on maps at the time.
- knodi123 11y agoI submitted a fix to google maps, where they were forcing people to detour around a perfectly straight section of rural highway because it was marked as impassable. Imagine my surprise when I got an email ONE YEAR LATER saying "your revision has been accepted!"
- e40 11y agoI submitted a fix to google maps where a bus stop in my neighborhood was missing. About 6 months later I got an email saying "for technical reasons we cannot fix this." All the other apps that show bus stops have the stop. I just don't use google maps for transportation stuff. City Mapper is my goto app for that.
- archagon 11y agoI wish Apple would do the obvious thing and allow 3rd party apps to send public transport data directly to the official Maps app, via a new extension point. That way, if you have the right apps, everything would always be up to date, and maybe you'd even be able to see things like real-time bus and subway markers if your public transit apps supported tracking! Google has some amazing technology, but their web-based infrastructure simply would not allow them to create a decentralized system like this — whereas it's right in Apple's wheelhouse.
- tomkwok 11y agoThe culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451972425213&start=0 http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.
- Aissen 11y ago> 967 days , 2068 total edits, 717 reviews that's one trusted editor.
- Aissen 11y agoAnother one here, same editor: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z
- piyush_soni 11y agoThis is still here (others are gone for me). Wonder how he's able to do all these edits and still get approved?
- Aissen 11y agoGone now.
- pbnjay 11y agoHe apparently got a "skype" logo through too: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lahore+District,+Pakistan/@31.6098091,74.3219197,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x391903ebbb9ffc35:0xbe19146ef117ae71 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lahore+District,+Pakistan/...
- ixtli 11y agoProof that Pakistan is harboring terrorists ;)
- ricleal 11y agoThis reminds me when a the google car caught on camera a guy taking a dump just behind his van. People managed to save the original picture: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RtfjC_R5060/UjpCpNvy3jI/AAAAAAAAAkA/GZZ8IHdCdj4/s1600/Apanhados+do+Google+Super+Bock+Viseu+em+Agosto+2010.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RtfjC_R5060/UjpCpNvy3jI/AAAAAAAAAk... But it didn't last long. Google deleted the poor guy: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.952075,-7.948871,3a,75y,28.83h,73.64t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSJrJ24MW8FelpQCemVWLxQ!2e0 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.952075,-7.948871,3a,75y,28.8...
- idealform01 11y agohaha, these are great! i am always surprised when people find things like this.
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- gulbrandr 11y agoHere is another one: https://goo.gl/maps/rHdBr https://goo.gl/maps/rHdBr
- bikamonki 11y agoWhy is this entry no longer on the front page of HN? Was it removed due to its content?
- pssnapp 11y agoAnd I am so happy about that it was a cyanide injected apple that was trying to get droid to take a nibble. Lol