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  • Re: Google & Apple maps changed the name of a large indentation of the

    From Terje Mathisen@21:1/5 to Alan on Wed Feb 12 22:00:21 2025
    Alan wrote:
    On 2025-02-12 11:15, Andy Burns wrote:
    Andy Burns wrote:

    Marion wrote:

    Have all the Google & Apple maps around the world reflected that
    change?

    Here it says "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

    And it still says "Denali"


    Same and same (Canada)

    And here in Norway.

    I.e this is very much US only, to avoid irritating a particularly guy.

    Terje

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    - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to Abandoned Trolley on Fri Feb 14 17:39:00 2025
    XPost: uk.telecom.mobile

    On 14/02/2025 16:04, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
    Also ..... postcode centres for PO Boxes seem to have a different set of rules.

    I had a PO Box of my own for a while, and the postcode centre was
    planted on top of the sorting office - which makes some sort of sense,
    but ...

    Theres a field full of sheep across the road from my house, and right in
    the middle of it is a postcode pin for a business which is several miles
    away - I sometimes wonder if they get any mail at all.


    Years ago we had a contract at work to do audits of mobile phone base
    stations for one of the companies.

    We were sent a list of sites to do each week but were only given
    postcodes which are useless in rural areas. It took some time to
    convince them that we needs NGRs, I remember we went to one site on a
    day with low cloud and had to drive up a few tracks to see if a tower at
    the top.

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