{"id":5454,"date":"2005-01-18T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2005-01-18T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T08:40:53","slug":"the-long-way-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/01\/18\/the-long-way-round\/","title":{"rendered":"The long way round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here&#8217;s something for you to play with. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/mappoint.msn.com\/DirectionsFind.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"directions finder\">MapPoint on MSN<\/a> and enter your starting city as Haugesund (it&#8217;s in Norway) and your destination as Trondheim (also in Norway) &#8211; a fairly plausible journey for a Norwegian to undertake, or for that matter, an Englishman taking the Newcastle to Haugesund ferry.<br \/>\nNow ponder on why MapPoint suggests that you take a 47 hour journey travelling through seven other countries (yes, SEVEN &#8211; England, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and back to Norway), including two ferries and the Channel Tunnel.<br \/>\nWhat does this say about Microsoft? (And can anyone explain how their database could get it so wrong?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here&#8217;s something for you to play with. Go to MapPoint on MSN and enter your starting city as Haugesund (it&#8217;s in Norway) and your destination as Trondheim (also in Norway) &#8211; a fairly plausible journey for a Norwegian to undertake, or for that matter, an Englishman taking the Newcastle to Haugesund ferry. Now ponder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}