May 19, 2008

Where’s Russell Square gone?

I’ve been testing out a geocoding component that I’ve built with Cakephp and noticed that Google maps has placed the legend Bloomsbury Square over what is actually Russell Square. Perhaps that explains why people are always asking me for directions to Bloomsbury Place whilst standing in Russell Square holding their Google map print off.

Bloomsbury in the wrong place.....компютри

Addendum: This has now been rectified and the label is now Russell Square Gardens. As shown below. I probably should have reported it, but was a bit snowed under rebuilding our database and submitting AHRC bids…..

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