Now on Google maps if you drag America off to the left you'll discover that a new pair of islands has appeared in the previously endless sea. Yes. Google maps now does .uk and .ie. None of the rest of Europe - it's still part of the endless sea. I guess Google maps now roughly corresponds to Dubya's world view. :-)
Re:Ireland
Molt on 2005-04-21T14:11:27
The actual business address data is provided by Yell.com (as credited at the bottom right of search results), and since they don't cover Ireland it'll be a lot more work for Google to do this.Re:Ireland
link on 2005-04-23T01:53:00
I meant the location search more than the business search. It feels a little strange to see Dublin on the map but for a search for Dublin to not return Dublin,Ireland.
Then again its cool to have the maps available at all,just a pity google ireland havn't managed to get a maps.google.ie in place.
I'm waiting for the tie in to the satellite information now. Demanding much, am I ? Well, the USians 'ave it. Why not us, huh ? I'm waiting to be embarassed by someone pointing me to it
It's wonderful stuff though. I trashed my Multimap bookmark then and there.
Re:Anglosphere
da on 2005-11-15T16:31:39
...just happened across this entry. I realize you weren't looking for discussion or arguement, and I hope to not provide the latter, but I think two things are worth pointing out.With an obvious exception (the US), the associations are there in the Commonwealth of Nations, which has existed since the 1920s and currently has its most effect through cultural links instead of explicit treaties (though there are a number of policies that are harmonized between Commonwealth countries).
What that means for international identities today, I'm not sure.
Secondly, as an American living in Canada, who moved here just before September 2001, I can say pretty clearly that english-speaking Canada was not solidly behind the war in Iraq; an ipsos-reid poll I just dug up says two weeks after the war started, 54% of English Canada supported the war (48% including Francophones). http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=1784 In mid-2002, approximately 65% of Canadians were opposed to Canadian involvement in the war without UN sanctions, or approved of US involvement, according to Environics polls (http://erg.environics.net/news/default.asp?aID=516). Though Environics' numbers suggested 70% of Canadians were opposed to the war after the first six months, so higher than ipsos-reids' poll results.
Anyway, just wanted to fill that bit in.
Re:Anglosphere
pudge on 2005-11-15T17:10:01
Secondly, as an American living in Canada, who moved here just before September 2001, I can say pretty clearly that english-speaking Canada was not solidly behind the war in Iraq; an ipsos-reid poll I just dug up says two weeks after the war started, 54% of English Canada supported the war
What I meant was that it was a solid majority (which I think this poll shows, pretty clearly). I didn't mean to imply the support was overwhelming.
