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Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps
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Time: 2016-08-21 07:38:58 UTC
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Title: Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps
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Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story [theregister.com]:
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 [regmedia.co.uk] for those reading our mobile site).
The co-ordinates are right save for one important detail: Melbourne is at 37.8136° South [goo.gl]. Bing's therefore put it in the wrong hemisphere.
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 [theregister.co.uk]. Apple Maps also sent those looking for the remote city of Mount Isa to an even less hospitable and more remote [theregister.co.uk] part of Australia's great inland deserts. ®
