Reply to post: Re: Absolute proof

Microsoft's maps lost Melbourne because it used bad Wikipedia data

Steven Roper

Re: Absolute proof

"No negative sign... It was marked "South". But of course, Microsoft assumes numbers are always signed..."

I could have told them that within 5 seconds of seeing where Melbourne was on the map. Japan is directly north of Melbourne and Adelaide, in fact my house is less than 15 km west of the exact longitude of the summit of Fujiyama. The mountain is also about the same latitude north as Adelaide is south; in fact if my house swapped its latitude sign I'd actually have a spectacular view of Fujiyama across the bay south of Numazu from my bedroom window!

So the first thing I thought when I saw Melbourne in that position was "The stupid sods have swapped the latitude sign!"

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