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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.
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. ®
What is the best (worst?) IT data error that you can recall? We will discount the old chestnut 'Keyboard not found - Press F12 to continue' but share whatever else you have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @10:49PM
Depends on the geometry of the drain, and the waters initial momentum vector.
For me, this is yet another sign that the self-proclaimed 'overlords', globalists and promoters of their 'New World Order' are in panic:
This here map [wikimedia.org]seems to be a much more consistent representation of the Earth. Notice Australia?
In this information age, inconsistencies on the Southern hemisphere are impossible to hide. Already people are realizing that the math for Australia's railway do not add up on a globe, neither do the navigation logs from the first British explorers, nor do Southern constellations. There is no such thing as a 'midnight Sun' in Antarctica.
All military protocols consider the Earth as stationary and flat: navigation, ballistics, everything. Flight paths and shipping lanes make much more sense on an azimuthal equidistant map, as do wind patterns.
Act responsibly, do your own research, and keep a keen eye for 'new' technologies and rhetoric aiming to keep this deception going: they will do whatever to keep kicking this can for as much as possible.
But most importantly, have a Great Day!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @12:25AM
I'm sorry, but the Ministry of Silly Conspiracy Theories is going to have to again deny your funding to further develop this conspiracy theory. Your presentation of the azimuthal equidistant projection is a classic amateur mistake. If you'd had a bit more experience with conspiracy theories, you would have realized that in order to make that point, you'd also need to perform a Koernke-Icke reversal and include the information that the UN logo is also an azimuthal equidistant projection, allowing you to then present a circular argument that your theory is correct by illustrating that the lizard people are flaunting the hidden truth in plain sight.
Now, I must see to the other applicant who has a research proposal concerning flesh-eating alien hybrids. Good day to you as well.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @01:25AM
Note: If anybody wants a very interesting interactive map, try https://earth.nullschool.net/ [nullschool.net]
Click on the word "earth" at the bottom left. Then change projection to AE. Drag mouse around to recenter the azimuthal equidistant projection. Fascinating watching it change in real time. There are a few other projections to play with as well, and it can overlay various things such as wind currents.
(Obviously, parent comment is an idiot.)
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:53AM
Sinu-Mollweide projection FTW
In which countries are drawn in their correct proportions to one another.
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