Malcolm_Stewart
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 11/07/2005
Posts: 2215
Loc: Milton Keynes, UK
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Where does Google Maps get its UK Info data from? It seems to be using a seriously out of date database.
For example:
If you open Google Maps on England and zoom in, my home town of Milton Keynes is missing, although Northampton and Bletchley are shown. I've only been here since 1982, and the town celebrated its 40th birthday some years ago.
If you enter this post code, SA44 4QD, it tells you that the area is Llandysul, Dyfed. Dyfed no longer exists, having been split into Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in 1996.
I'm sure there are other examples, but you get the picture.
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Malcolm Stewart
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 36293
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Actually, their database is from next year, which explains the absence of Milton Keynes. 
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Nick
www.nbrphoto.com
Light and Shade II - the new blog
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 36293
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Looking at it, MK does appear to be there, just not named. Which if anything is even odder.
And as for SA44 4QD, the official former postal county (!) as held by the Royal Mail is still Dyfed, as they stopped using the postal county system in 1996. Quite what purpose they serve now I don't know...
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Nick
www.nbrphoto.com
Light and Shade II - the new blog
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Fen
BAD WOLF
Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 19499
Loc: Currently Unknown!
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Maybe MK is classed as a Military Base
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BigWill
Cupcake-Babykins- Creampuff
Reged: 08/09/2000
Posts: 33226
Loc: Northern Ireland
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Milton Keynes doesn't exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think they're trying to tell us something!  
BigWill
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Malcolm_Stewart
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 11/07/2005
Posts: 2215
Loc: Milton Keynes, UK
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Milton Keynes doesn't exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think they're trying to tell us something!
BigWill
Perhaps they knew our Oak Tree was dying...
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Malcolm Stewart
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TH-Photos
Reged: 01/10/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
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Shame they can't do the same to Birmingham. 
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daft_biker
Action Man!
Reged: 11/10/2006
Posts: 6865
Loc: Doon the glen
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FWIW postcodes form part of the security check done during online card transactions.....I don't intend on posting mine publicy on a forum
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Andrew (BSRIPN) ... Pics.
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sjaszczak
A Real Gentleman
Reged: 08/06/2005
Posts: 897
Loc: York
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Maybe MK is classed as a Military Base
The Stevenage council saw fit to put up a sign a while back saying "Stevenage is a nuclear free zone"...shame...Stevenage could do with being nuked really.
Maybe Stevenage's old pastime of building nuclear weapons has been transfered to MK and as such, MK now needs to be removed from all maps so nobody has a chance of finding it?
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Steve
My Flickr
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Dorset_Mike
It's about time mine changed
Reged: 11/05/2006
Posts: 1541
Loc: Poole, Dorset.
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We seem to have far better definition over most UK towns than much of Europe on both Google and Live.
Live search for Poole is at least 4 years out of date, the 2 Ford Classics and a Mini parked outside here were sold that long ago, the Google Earth is between 2 years and about 4 months old, again going by the cars outside. Definition on Google is also a bit better than Live, you can see a bloke over the road standing by his car. Eye altitude down to about 150M is useable after which it's a bit too soft!!
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Cheers, MIKE
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Norman
Reged: 23/09/2004
Posts: 1535
Loc: West London, UK
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This reminds me when Google Earth first came out. I installed it and called the wife over. I zoomed into our house and said "look you can see the car parked outside". She said "wait, I'll go outside and waive". Bless her!
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Norman
www.photobox.org.uk
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Anything a man says after that is the start of a new argument.
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Cuthbert
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Reged: 10/09/2007
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Rather peculiarly, on Multimap/Microsoft Virtual Earth, the Bird's Eye view shows the new building where my local Jessops is. The Aerial view of the same location shows some wasteland and delapidated houses.
Click here for Aerial view before Jessies.
Click here for a current view with Jessies
Mind you, with the number of customers in the Bird's Eye view carpark, it's not suprising Jessops is in such dire straits! So I am not altogether sure whether the aerial view is an old picture, or has fallen through a rift in time from the near future.
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Garry McNamara
Snr Tutor/Bongo Banjo
Reged: 16/08/2006
Posts: 2045
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I went on there a few weeks ago and my house was a few broken down walls and rafters with weeds up to your waist.
Now it's all done up and has an umbrella in the garden.
In the words of the great Paul Daniels - that's magic!
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
Reged: 24/04/2001
Posts: 10141
Loc: In A Glass Darkly
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Maybe MK is classed as a Military Base
Doesn't stop 'em showing King Khalid Military City on Google Earth!
I didn't posted that, you ain't seen me, right...
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TheFatControlleR
And so, my fellow Benchists: ask not what your bench can do for you - ask what you can do for your bench... Ben Chism
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ermintrude
Hinkypuff
Reged: 30/06/2003
Posts: 12133
Loc: London, UK
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When we went away the other weekend we googlemapped the route and all was fine... when we checked again just before we left Saturday morning half of it was still nighttime and the other half had a giant cloud on it... 
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ahar
enthusiast
Reged: 13/07/2005
Posts: 321
Loc: London, UK
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Well the section to the left of there hasn't been updated for ages as it's just where I live and the garage it shows at my house was demolished in 2002...
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Cheers
Andy
There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those that don't
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ermintrude
Hinkypuff
Reged: 30/06/2003
Posts: 12133
Loc: London, UK
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Well the section to the left of there hasn't been updated for ages as it's just where I live and the garage it shows at my house was demolished in 2002...
What, on that picture I posted? Cos the top (majority) of the photo (with the cloud/plane vapour/whatever on) was the new one and that inch at the bottom is remains of the old one that was there the night before... or did you mean another picture?
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Further, longer, higher, older...
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ahar
enthusiast
Reged: 13/07/2005
Posts: 321
Loc: London, UK
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Yes, the one you posted. To the left of Aldenham country park and the lake is Bushey, and the pictures of the village are still really old!
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Cheers
Andy
There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those that don't
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