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    Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?

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    Image of mary002 mary002
    11/04/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I grew up in Aughton and 'Argleton' is about where the end of our garden was, where for some reason someone had built a huge conservatory/shed in front of a small summerhouse bower. Has Google detected all the time I spent in the imaginary worlds of books and made it a place?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    On the other hand, mapping credit where it's due...

    Google maps has no problem with my favorite towns:

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy..., Wales

    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauot..., New Zealand, nor

    Krungthepmahanakonbowornratana..., Thailand (Bangkok, or "Krungthepmahanakorn," for short) #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    If Roubini ever invites you up to his pudenda-prettified loft, you can impress people with the pronunciation of the first one (and yes, smartass Welsh are invited to correct me):

    Khan Fair Pookh Gan Gikh Go Ger Ish Wrin Dro Bo Khan De See Lee Oh Go Go Gokh #googlemaps
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    Image of dros dros
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    To make a 'll', put the tip of your tongue on the front of your palate and blow.
    Same 'ch' as in 'Loch Lomond'

    It's the made up name of a train station (and Pringle sweater outlet) and you say it:

    Thlan-vair Pooll Goo-een Gheell Goh Gher Ur Khu-eern Droh-Booll, Llahn-Tee Silly-Oh, Go! Go! Go-ch. #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @dros:

    How do you say smartass in Welsh? :)

    If you want to get technical though, it is the name of the town. A sign with the town's name does reside at the train station according to the most reliable of online sources. Even more exact, it refers to the church (see photo).

    Dying to find out what a "Llantysilio" might be...
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    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Here's the foto:

    [en.wikipedia.org] #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Here we go:

    "LLANTYSILIO - This comes from the words "llan" meaning "parish" and St. Tysilio. "

    [members.virtualtourist.com] #googlemaps
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    False maps have consequences! I'm tellin' you, if you find an old Hastings Map in an antique bookstore, DON'T FOLLOW IT! Here's why, from an old blog entry somewhere.

    The Hastings Guide was devised by a Lansford Hastings to inspire emigrants to come to California in the 1840's rather than taking the Oregon Trail. He owned land in the former state and wished to sell plenty of it to settlers, which he could not do were they to head north of his holdings. The Guide promised a shortcut of some three or four hundred miles were the weary traveler to take a southern route pioneered by Fremont, called the Hastings Cut-Off, leaving the Ft Hall road south and west of the Great Salt Lake.

    This became maybe the most influential and historically significant travel guide since Marco Polo, as you can judge by the name given to one group of pioneers who took the advice of Mr Lansford Hastings - the Donner Party.     #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: Don't follow it, that is, unless you are you traveling on foot and like eating people.

    So, we can assume some Googler has land in this area and is trying to create a mass emigration perhaps from nearby Scotland? #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: Don't follow it, that is, unless you are you traveling on foot and like eating people.

    So, we can assume some Googler has land in this area and is trying to create a mass emigration perhaps from nearby Scotland? #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Ryan Tate: You know where the most copies on record of the Hastings Guide were found? Why, within the private library of Jeffrey Dahmer, of course. #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: It's a mapmaker eat mapmaker world. #googlemaps
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: [strangemaps.wordpress.com] #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @raincoaster:

    It would be more fun to print this out and read it in bed on a stormy night than read it on the computer... but even so... great stuff! #googlemaps
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    Image of cocodevaux cocodevaux
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?

    they should have gone with the classic preschool move... #googlemaps
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    Image of AwBigHug AwBigHug
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    Yikes. Is anything quite as terrifying as the prospect of an aggrieved British mapmaker asking you the tough questions? I've known some British mapmakers, and take it from me: they get aggrieved, and it's Guantanamo time, beeyotch. #googlemaps
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I don't quite understand the need or concern to copyright a fucking map since the layout of the roads is what it is, and a map of that area made by one company will obviously have the same shit on it as map made by another -- I suppose it's how the layout is formatted, colorized, presented that may make a difference. Certainly we must assume all of Google maps' "knowledge" is from other existing maps -- are we to pretend to believe that some backpack-wearing Google hipsters canvassed the globe and charted every road themselves? #googlemaps
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    11/03/09

    @lobstr: Data compilations are copyrightable because of the effort it takes to put them together. #googlemaps
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/03/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: Is this so? Then how come the data compilation of phone books cannot be copyrighted, which is why so many varieties of them clutter your mailbox? #googlemaps
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: Because it's public record? I'm just guessing here. That would probably be why you can't go to the courthouse and copyright a compilation of everyone's marriage licenses, or something.

    Or wait, can you? Cha-ching! #googlemaps
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/03/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: I actually don't think copyright law uses "effort" as an indicator. Or, at least, if it does, it was probably a specific exception made to protect maps. #googlemaps
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/03/09

    @braak: Right. The "poetry" of Rod McEuen was copyrighted, reportedly, although no one cared to test the theory. #googlemaps
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    Perhaps Google inserted the fake town to catch people pilfering their maps. #googlemaps
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    Just fucking great. There goes my trip to Narnia... #googlemaps
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/03/09

    @A Message To Rudy: Shhhhh. We PAID to be removed from the index. #googlemaps
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    It's just down the road from Little Hangleton. #googlemaps
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    ARGLETON is an anagram of NOT LARGE. this might have something to do with a penis (mine?!). #googlemaps
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    Image of mamacrass mamacrass
    11/03/09

    @shostakobitch: Also, "Not Real G." #googlemaps
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/03/09

    @mamacrass: Also OLE GRANT. This might have something to do with a bullfighting scholarship. #googlemaps
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    11/03/09

    @shostakobitch: Might I offer ORAL GENT as a complimentary alternative? #googlemaps
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    11/03/09

    @kimsama: That might also have to do with shostakobitch's penis. #googlemaps
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    Microsoft has plenty of APIs that promise so much yet return only NULL. #googlemaps
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    Image of blix blix
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I'm beginning to realize why there are no street views of Petticoat Junction. #googlemaps
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    11/03/09

    @blix: But google maps can still tell me how to get to Sesame Street, right? #googlemaps
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    Image of blix blix
    11/03/09

    @TableNein: Yes, but the map to Brigadoon seems only to be accurate once every hundred years. #googlemaps
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I knew dictionary publishers inserted fake words to prevent plagiarism, but not that mapmakers did this.

    Reminds me of something Pynchon would come up with. #googlemaps
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    Image of anonymousryan anonymousryan
    11/03/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: I don't think it's very cromulent of dictionary publishers to insert fake words, what if someone accidentally used one?! #googlemaps
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    Image of formergr formergr
    11/03/09

    @anonymousryan: Actually I think it's excellent strategery for them to do so... #googlemaps
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I'm pretty sure Google's hard at work correcting their maps by creating the town of Argleton. They certainly can afford it. #googlemaps
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    11/03/09

    @DennyCrane: And, your job just got shipped there, too. #googlemaps
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/03/09

    @Niko Bellic: Yeah, but a new city means a new journalism job, right??

    ..... right? #googlemaps
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    01/30/09

    In reply to Google Maps Loves Guns, Hates Bambi
    It looks like a typical hunting rifle to me. It appears to have a big-ass clip, like an AK-47, but it's just a small brief case or maybe an ammo box that he's also carrying.
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