fizz: yeah, yeah, you are the second person to say this. I have poor timing sometimes. So, now I give a toss, and my reaction is no longer the kneejerk “the BBC is ours! if you want free content, hassle Fox TV and see how far you get!“, and is instead the more considered “the BBC is the world’s premiere broadcasting organisation, and is paid for by the people, and thus we already own all its content; if your country doesn’t have anything like that then I think that that’s a shame, because it’s a good model, but there’s nothing I can do to fix it.”
Doesn’t this mean you’ve got to give all the BBC content to the yanks now?!
Posted by fizz on April 19th, 2005.
I thought I saw some folks doing stuff with satellite images on the US version – do you know how to get those up?
Posted by Rob on April 19th, 2005.
fizz: nope. Google are using UK data to do it :)
Posted by sil on April 19th, 2005.
Rob: dunno. I also don’t know whether you can get satellite imagery for free of the UK anyway…
Posted by sil on April 19th, 2005.
Note that local.google.co.uk is also working, as is http://www.google.co.uk/sms
Posted by mrben on April 19th, 2005.
It’s not really there yet; I’ve been critisising it all morning…
Give it another week or so :-)
Posted by Senji on April 19th, 2005.
It is simply fucking unbelievable.
Did you check the Directions application.
So smooth…
Posted by Raanan on April 19th, 2005.
I’m liking the SMS thing.
Aq: “When the Yanks who will inevitably complain about this start getting my town into Google Maps, I’ll start giving a toss.”
Posted by fizz on April 20th, 2005.
fizz: yeah, yeah, you are the second person to say this. I have poor timing sometimes. So, now I give a toss, and my reaction is no longer the kneejerk “the BBC is ours! if you want free content, hassle Fox TV and see how far you get!“, and is instead the more considered “the BBC is the world’s premiere broadcasting organisation, and is paid for by the people, and thus we already own all its content; if your country doesn’t have anything like that then I think that that’s a shame, because it’s a good model, but there’s nothing I can do to fix it.”
Posted by sil on April 20th, 2005.
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