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Monday, June 04, 2007

Where's Brighton?

Here's a little puzzle for you, using only the scroll and zoom functions of Google Maps, try and find the south-coast town of Brighton on this map.

Clue... it should be near Hove.

Can anyone tell me why it's not there? :-S

Carolyn Ann Maybe it's become the British "Area 51"? :-)

Some top secret stuff in Brighton. Wouldn't want the wrong sort of people* to know what, or where it is...

Carolyn Ann

*If you live there, you know where it is. If you don't, well they don't want any old riff-raf coming in. :-)

Jessica Shannon google maps is crap, i'm really going off it quick. They still don't show motorway junctions and the towns it chooses as labels are completely random! MS live maps is much better, has cool features and better satellite imagery, new multimap is good too.

Becky Agreed, the images on MSN are a lot more detailed. One problem though, the satellite images of King's Lynn are ancient! It still shows my old red car, and I've not had that for 7-8 years!

It's kinda fun looking around and spotting all the changes, though. :)

Natalie I found Brighton Marina Village and the East Brighton Country Club. But the fact that Brighton isn't actually labeled seems strange to me too.

steph_angel All I found was Denmark Villas!!!

Pandora Caitiff Google are knee-jerk, right-wing, reactionary homophobes?

Or they're a big American company who can't be bothered with fiddly little towns that aren't London.

Anonymous Huh. Interesting. I've submitted this to the Google Maps engineers. Let's see if we can get poor, neglected Brighton some love.

Davo.
Ex Brightonite @ Google who hasn't got a lot going on the right-wing, homophobic, reactionary side these days.

Becky Thanks Davo. :-)

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