Posted on 08/21/2016 8:51:05 AM PDT by dayglored
City of Melbourne, population four million, placed in the wrong hemisphere
Microsoft has misplaced Melbourne, the four-million-inhabitant capital of the Australian State of Victoria.
A search on Bing Maps for “Melbourne, Victoria, Australia” says the city is at 37.813610, 144.963100 which we've screen-captured above (or here for those reading our mobile site).
The co-ordinates are right save for one important detail: Melbourne is at 37.8136° South. Bing's therefore put it in the wrong hemisphere.
The Register's Australian outpost has tried searching for a few other major cities in Victoria and beyond and believes this is an isolated and probably-fat-fingered error.
If you know better, hit the comments.
Bing's not alone in finding Australia hard to navigate: in 2012 police warned not to use Apple Maps as it directed those seeking the rural Victorian town of Mildura into the middle of a desert. Apple Maps also sent those looking for the remote city of Mount Isa to an even less hospitable and more remote part of Australia's great inland deserts.
Amazing what a single-bit error can do...
bookmark!
Apparently his next venture is Common Core Geography.
Ah, for the days when they taught geography...
there is a Melbourne in the Philippines...
that’s near Japan...
Ha!
But it begs the question...
If you didn’t know where it was enough to have to ask, how would you know it isn’t there for real?
No news here folks ...
Cut ‘em some slack. They just got Melbourne, Australia confused with Melbourne, Florida.
Oh, wait. Never mind.
Yeah, but the projection used in those maps is racist or hemispherist or something because it emphasizes polar regions vs. equatorial ones and the Northern Hemisphere has more land close to the pole than the Southern Hemisphere. Who knew placement of land mass could be waycisssss? Out with the maps!
They probably used a copy of the software and got a mirror image. That happens sometimes.
I shall restrain myself and not mention at all the Windows users making all those snarky comments about Apple Maps in the Apple threads. . . No, I won’t mention it at all. . . Not at all. I shall stand mute. I shall take the high road. (GRIN)
I talked to someone that works for Garmin (the GPS people). He said they get their maps from another company and spend a lot of effort cleaning them up.
Hey, all software code writers do it - it’s only a minor mix-up of plus and minus signs.
Even the expen$ive F-22 had a major glitch when it crossed the International Date Line...:^)
http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets+Zapped+by+International+Date+Line/article6225.htm
Out with maps, down with learning, it makes their brainless widdle heads hurt! Ignorance is bliss!
I can only imagine...and I don’t wanna! Arrgh.
AND!
It's smaller than Texas. Ha Ha.
The one I like is: Which is further west, Reno or Los Angeles?
See here.
Reno
And easier for their betters to propagandize and control! Everybody wins!
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