{"id":5675,"date":"2005-04-19T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2005-04-19T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T10:59:04","slug":"google-maps-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/04\/19\/google-maps-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google Maps UK\">Google Maps<\/a> has been launched in beta for the UK and seems to be potentially useful (although I&#8217;m not sure about the map on the launch page, which shows the position of Great Britain relative to Newfoundland!). However, a quick look at Ruralville revealed several roads depicted on the map that simply do not exist (they are either footpaths or private drives and farm tracks &#8211; I looked at some nearby MoD land on the map and found tracks displayed that are definitely off-limits).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also tried the driving directions feature, using the journey between home and my parents as the test. It seems that Google doesn&#8217;t know the difference between &quot;left&quot;, &quot;right&quot; and &quot;straight ahead&quot; &#8211; there are several glaring errors in the directions offered to me. I&#8217;ll stick to the AA driving directions qwhich are generally accurate, even if their journeyt times are almost always hopelessly optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has been launched in beta for the UK and seems to be potentially useful (although I&#8217;m not sure about the map on the launch page, which shows the position of Great Britain relative to Newfoundland!). However, a quick look at Ruralville revealed several roads depicted on the map that simply do not exist [&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-5675","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\/5675","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=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}