Google maps loses Florida city…for the third time
Posted by staff / September 24, 2010
Google seems to be sending a message to Sunrise, Florida, and that message is “Sayonara.” When Sunrise went missing from the popular map site for the third time, city officials were dumbfounded. Mayor Mike Ryan says it’s unacceptable to drop a city of 90,000 even though:
“The algorithms they have to apply to understand what my search is are undoubtedly complicated…”
When he heard of the most recent drop, he was in disbelief.
“I said ‘holy cow,’” he said. “It felt like a bizarre novel — that all of a sudden we disappeared. We woke up one morning and we didn’t exist in the ether world.”
Potential customers of one of the country’s biggest malls and Florida’s first IKEA were no doubt a bit confused as to why they were being routed 200 miles to Sarasota, but hey, anything for those Swedish meatballs, right?
Full story at CNN.
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