• (cs)

    People live there?!

    </sarcasm>
  • (cs) in reply to WeatherGod

    -Maps - So that's where the government is testing this time the satellites went over. hmm great way to point out your work US Govt.

  • (cs)

    The people that live there are not the FIRST people to live there, but rather the SECOND generation.

  • Volpone (unregistered)

    Luckily, I can use this map to plan my trip to Icago. I want to see my favorite team, the Icago Ears!

  • (cs)

    But all of Missouri is visible on the map! Maybe you meant "most of Wisconsin?"

  • Dude (unregistered) in reply to JCM
    JCM:
    But all of Missouri is visible on the map! Maybe you meant "most of Wisconsin?"

    I agree, how about Minnesota? I love it when the WTF is built by the authors of this site!

  • (cs)

    oh no! I had a network congestion error! WTF? ... WTF.

  • emanrouy (unregistered)

    Or maybe most of Nebraska? Reading is FUNdamental

  • James (unregistered)

    Is the misspelling of definitely in the title and first line of this post a joke or not?

  • (cs) in reply to James
    James:
    Is the misspelling of definitely in the title and first line of this post a joke or not?

    "Definately Use Spell-Check."

    I'm going with maybe.

  • (cs) in reply to JCM
    JCM:
    But all of Missouri is visible on the map! Maybe you meant "most of Wisconsin?"

    My first thought as well... but you know, for most businesses and musicians, the United States is basically the northeastern seaboard connected to Texas which connects to California and Washington.

  • (cs)

    I hate how they name all the states (albeit poorly), but can't say that most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are covered. Come on, there are only two of them! And it's hardly a large part of Canada.

  • Wally (unregistered)

    Well, they missed MOST of Montana. None of Missouri is covered...

  • Jim (unregistered)

    We might be justifying the infamous Miss Teen South Carolina in her assertions about geographical ignorance here. It makes me ashamed to be a US American!!!

  • Josh K (unregistered)

    They also failed to mention that all of Wyoming is covered too. Granted, there are only ~510,000 of us living here but still...

  • (cs)

    A database I work on has a table named "occurances"!

  • BlueCollarAstronaut (unregistered)

    I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don’t have maps. and uh… I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as… and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.

  • (cs)

    As a Minnesotan sitting in my office here in Minneapolis, I assure you all that we truly do exist.

  • Phillip (unregistered)

    Umm... what is wrong with Missouri?

  • Buckaroo Bonzai (unregistered)

    I didn't know you could do that!

    Brillant!

  • Mike P. (unregistered)

    Missouri is fine. Maybe you meant Nebraska?

  • (cs)

    I think you mean Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and Wisconsin. Missouri is fully rendered on that map.

  • (cs)

    With data coming up on 6 to 7 years old, the comment about Google not supporting Canada is more true than you could possibly know.

    Frankly, I don't consider it an authoritative source for anything map like, heck, my memory is more accurate now - sad really.

  • Ethan (unregistered)

    google maps shows that when an image doesn't load. anybody who's been on a shoddy internet connection has seen that. not a wtf. maybe the text that they show when it doesn't load sort of is, but it's been that way for a long time; nothing new here.

  • Dan (unregistered)
  • (cs) in reply to Cyrus
    Cyrus:
    James:
    Is the misspelling of definitely in the title and first line of this post a joke or not?
    "Definately Use Spell-Check."

    I'm going with maybe.

    Read the first line of the post. "'Occurance' is definately a common mispeling.". One "s" and "l" in "mispeling. It's a joke.

  • Kevin (unregistered)

    I believe that's the image that is shown when the ajax couldn't fetch the correct map image.

  • (cs) in reply to RayMarron
    RayMarron:
    A database I work on has a table named "occurances"!

    Guh, did you have to remind me of the time my old company released stuff that was looking for a config parameter called "AutherizationUrl", even though the doc spelled it correctly? Too many bug reports on that one.

    /The guy who coded it said he was originally typing "AuthenticationUrl", but switched tracks halfway through typing it. I think he was just trying to excuse away his bad Engrish though.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to BlueCollarAstronaut
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don’t have maps. and uh… I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as… and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.

    ROFL! The sad thing is that this is a real quote and this was spoken in all earnestness.

    If it weren't so wordy, I'd have attributed it to Ralph Wiggum.

    "I personally believe my head is filled with strawberry ice cream."

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to vt_mruhlin
    vt_mruhlin:
    /The guy who coded it said he was originally typing "AuthenticationUrl", but switched tracks halfway through typing it. I think he was just trying to excuse away his bad Engrish though.

    That would make it a double WTF since authentication and authorization are two very different things.

  • Buckaroo Bonzai (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don’t have maps. and uh… I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as… and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.

    ROFL! The sad thing is that this is a real quote and this was spoken in all earnestness.

    If it weren't so wordy, I'd have attributed it to Ralph Wiggum.

    "I personally believe my head is filled with strawberry ice cream."

    Miss * Carolina said that originally - I suppose it made news here in the USA only - thank Bob for that too.

  • MrEleganza (unregistered)

    The Google thing is not a WTF.

    That section of North America is restricted territory. Only high-level American and Canadian officials are allowed in there. They do freaky Ops stuff in there.

    People who claim to live in that area are undercover secret agents trying to throw you off the scent. The Minnesota Vikings? It was all just a bad dream, fat boy.

  • (cs) in reply to pauluskc
    pauluskc:
    oh no! I had a network congestion error! WTF? ... WTF.

    But the error isn't "Sorry, we are having network problems", its "We don't have maps at this zoom level for this region". Google's refusal to believe that they could have network problems (despite they occur nearly every time I try to map something from them) and that any error must be due to limited data certainly is a WTF.

  • keng (unregistered)

    I guess Jake is from South Africa...don't worry Jake, I hear maps are on the way.... 80)

  • jim steichen (unregistered)

    I wonder how often Google gets updated maps. The cul-de-sac on which I live now has a house on both sides of ours. Only the one on the left is shown on the Google Map. Captcha: xevious (what does that mean? It's not in my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary!)

  • (cs) in reply to Dan
  • Glen (unregistered) in reply to nwbrown
    nwbrown:
    pauluskc:
    oh no! I had a network congestion error! WTF? ... WTF.

    But the error isn't "Sorry, we are having network problems", its "We don't have maps at this zoom level for this region". Google's refusal to believe that they could have network problems (despite they occur nearly every time I try to map something from them) and that any error must be due to limited data certainly is a WTF.

    The issue is the way browsers force you to load and cache images. When you request an image for an area that doesn't have any data the backend generates an error. This is detected via javascript on the front end and that text is put in place instead of the tile. The reason an error is generated is that you don't want non-existent tiles ending up in some cache somewhere and you don't want to serve image data for area's that are blank. The trouble is that the browser can't distinguish between real errors and errors generated on the backend on purpose so you get this problem when the network gets a bit dodgy.

  • Scrubone (unregistered)

    That's nothing! http://halfdone.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/yea-you-need-to-do-something-about-that/

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    I've seen that Google map oddity too... Just zoom in, out, look around a bit, and after a bit of fiddling it will appear. I used to use Map24 as it was much more reliable and offered a nice Java interface, but they changed something on the website, and now it doesn't properly work anymore, regardless of which browser I use. :-( Their static (non-Java) maps are still available but they're nowhere near as good for some reason, so I've switched to Google's maps.

  • (cs) in reply to Buckaroo Bonzai
    Buckaroo Bonzai:
    Miss * Carolina said that originally - I suppose it made news here in the USA only - thank Bob for that too.
    Nah -- it made it unto BBC News and everywhere like such. So many WTFs, so little time.
  • jb (unregistered) in reply to BlueCollarAstronaut

    The bittersweet irony is I received a far more comprehensive education as a child at Selbourne primary in East London, South Africa, than I ever did when I returned to England. I was about 3 and a half years ahead of everyone in my class when I returned, and the levels of english(both basic spelling AND grammar) were so substandard in England that I just got lazy. Then the Southern Comfort started, and the rest is history(albeit a non-event type of history).

    I guess what this meandering waffle was trying to say was: You would be surprised how much better the education is in some of the supposed third world countries :)

  • (cs) in reply to James
    James:
    Is the misspelling of definitely in the title and first line of this post a joke or not?
    Well, let's see:

    "Occurance" is definately a common mispeling.

    Yeah, I would hope so.

  • (cs) in reply to Buckaroo Bonzai
    Buckaroo Bonzai:
    Miss * Carolina said that originally - I suppose it made news here in the USA only - thank Bob for that too.

    Don't forget that the video was posted on YouTube - for the whole world to enjoy and have a good laugh.

  • Quicksilver (unregistered) in reply to WeatherGod

    no one should make jokes about missing places on google maps/ google earth ... about a year ago the city Bielefeld in Germany was missing on the sattelite Photos of Google earth. Though this was only to badly attaching the sattelite photos to a consistent view, it gave new fodder to the "Bielefeld Conspiracy".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy

  • (cs) in reply to Glen
    Glen:
    nwbrown:
    pauluskc:
    oh no! I had a network congestion error! WTF? ... WTF.

    But the error isn't "Sorry, we are having network problems", its "We don't have maps at this zoom level for this region". Google's refusal to believe that they could have network problems (despite they occur nearly every time I try to map something from them) and that any error must be due to limited data certainly is a WTF.

    The issue is the way browsers force you to load and cache images. When you request an image for an area that doesn't have any data the backend generates an error. This is detected via javascript on the front end and that text is put in place instead of the tile. The reason an error is generated is that you don't want non-existent tiles ending up in some cache somewhere and you don't want to serve image data for area's that are blank. The trouble is that the browser can't distinguish between real errors and errors generated on the backend on purpose so you get this problem when the network gets a bit dodgy.

    No, the issue is in Google's application design, not in the browser. I've designed web applications, its perfectly possible for them to get around that.

  • (cs) in reply to Buckaroo Bonzai

    Its Miss Teen South Carolina, don't lump us with that other state that still thinks the Confederacy is still winning the Civil War.

  • (cs)

    I call fake on that Google Maps image: The message is always centred in the cell (the map is divided into 100px or so squares). The text in the wtf isn't even the correct aspect ratio.

  • (cs)

    Why does every one keeps on drawing on their pictures.

    It's so much funnier to spot the Wtf by myself then to look at dodgy arrows and poor drawn squarres.

    People, stop that.

  • (cs) in reply to LightningDragon
    LightningDragon:
    I call fake on that Google Maps image: The message is always centred in the cell (the map is divided into 100px or so squares). The text in the wtf isn't even the correct aspect ratio.

    There is no reliable way to vertically center text, if it's centered on your system it's a coincidence (or, if you're saying the affected area should be multiple cells, you're simply incorrect - I went to gmaps and watched it load, and the cells, at least at zoom ratios similar to the picture, are about the size of the one in the picture, and quite a bit larger than 100px). And I don't know wtf you mean by "isn't the correct aspect ratio" - are you saying it's in the wrong font? Different computers have different fonts. And, google maps is notorious for saying "we don't have maps at this zoom level for this region" whenever a tile fails to load for any reason. The fact that the positioning of the blank area exactly matches a real tile lends more credence to it in fact being real.

  • Arnie (unregistered)

    Presenting the long awaited sequel to "True Lies":

    CORRECT MISSPELLINGS!!!!!!!

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