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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ru5fManD61g/microsoft-lost-a-city-because-they-used-wikipedia-data
Microsoft Lost a City Because They Used Wikipedia Data
"Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps," joked The Register, reporting that Microsoft's site had "misplaced Melbourne, the four-million-inhabitant capital of the Australian State of Victoria." Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes:Though they're trying to minimise it, the recent relocation of Melbourne Australia to the ocean east of Japan in Microsoft's flagship mapping application is blamed on someone having flipped a sign in the latitude given for the city's Wikipedia page. Which may or may not be true. But the simple stupidity of using a globally-editable data source for feeding a mapping and navigation system is ... "awesome" is (for once) an appropriate word. Well, it's Bing, so at least no-one was actually using it. "Bing's not alone in finding Australia hard to navigate," reports The Register. "In 2012 police warned not to use Apple Maps as it directed those seeking the rural Victorian town of Mildura into the middle of a desert."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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