{"id":117,"date":"2011-05-29T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-05-29T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:20:00","slug":"where-is-the-royal-burgh-of-tain-google-maps-vs-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Where is The Royal Burgh of Tain? Google Maps vs Bing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update : the title was changed to remove the word fight as web mapping is not worth fighting about… <\/span><\/b>
A little post on the dangers of relying on your favourite web mapping sites too much.  I’ve just come from a nice holiday in the Highlands of Scotland and we were staying near a place called The Royal Burgh of Tain<\/a>.   As you can see Google Maps<\/a> (my web mapping of choice) doesn’t have it…. Bing does though<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Tain is only here <\/b>according to Google <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The town of Tain is here on Bing but not labelled on Google…. uh oh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Not really much to say other than the residents of Tain <\/a>might be a bit annoyed … at least tourists can find Glenmorangie Distillery<\/a>, phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update : the title was changed to remove the word fight as web mapping is not worth fighting about… A little post on the dangers of relying on your favourite web mapping sites too much.  I’ve just come from a nice holiday in the Highlands of Scotland and we were staying near a place called The Royal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,17,148,35,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cartography","category-maps","category-scotland","category-webdesign","category-webmapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}