{"id":3627,"date":"2013-07-12T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2013-07-12T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T06:37:14","slug":"google-maps-breaks-things-that-didnt-need-fixed-leaves-broken-stuff-that-needed-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/google-maps-breaks-things-that-didnt-need-fixed-leaves-broken-stuff-that-needed-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps breaks things that didn&#8217;t need fixed, leaves broken stuff that needed fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the highway lines on Google Maps now look more like Yahoo?<\/p>\n<p>Why are pre-2003 and even <em>pre-1980<\/em> highway designations showing up everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>Why are there IA 57 markers running along the Butler-Grundy county line? Why are various other now-decommissioned highways <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=42.002366,-91.996078&amp;spn=0.103582,0.110722&amp;t=m&amp;z=13\">going where they never did<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Why, if certain lesser roads are supposed to be a different width, do some of them change abruptly regardless of pavement?<\/p>\n<p>Why\/What is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=42.589741,-91.983719&amp;spn=0.205241,0.221443&amp;t=m&amp;z=12\">this giant gray blob<\/a>\u00a0southwest of Oelwein?<\/p>\n<p><em>Why are there still no county road names in the entire state of Iowa?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And if all of this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcauthority.com.au\/News\/349821,google-maps-for-android-70-unveils-redesign-improved-navigation.aspx?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=PC+%26+Tech+Authority+Notebooks+Review+feed+-+Latest+Articles\">supposed to be for Android<\/a>, why are cleanliness and accuracy being sacrificed for features? (And why can&#8217;t the writer of the linked article use to\/too\/two correctly? Or see the error in the phrase &#8220;as a free downloads&#8221;?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the highway lines on Google Maps now look more like Yahoo? Why are pre-2003 and even pre-1980 highway designations showing up everywhere? Why are there IA 57 markers running along the Butler-Grundy county line? Why are various other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/google-maps-breaks-things-that-didnt-need-fixed-leaves-broken-stuff-that-needed-fixing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}