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Post #211,641
by Ashton
6/18/05 4:36:28 PM
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New Reading? only the gaol is famous.. :-\ufffd
When boarding train in Oxford to get to Heathrow {sob} to return to Marketing Land, I asked about checking out Reading, maybe Oscar's famous-Gaol, at a stop -?-
Friend advised.. (she of the disdainful quip) - "not much to see, there".

I'm sure that a resident just might have a slightly different opinion :-0
Time to lobby Google to that end?


Ashton
ackshully - neutral on this proposition, due to ignorance of those environs
Post #211,642
by warmachine
6/18/05 7:13:29 PM
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New Reading: non-tourist Milton Keynes: soulless
If you were English, you'd know about Milton Keynes.

Reading is part of the UK silicon valley and is really a place of commerce and too many high street pubs and nightclubs. It has character but it's more money than sense and drunk. Milton Keynes is one of the new towns built after the war. Like all new towns, the planning was done by soulless bureaucrats trying to apply social engineering. Miton Keynes is regarded as the ugliest example. It's even got concrete cows.

Why anyone would want to highlight Milton Keynes on a high level map is beyond me (or Bracknell or Slough).
Matthew Greet


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     OK - you non USAians - (broomberg) - (32) - June 18, 2005, 03:05:05 PM EDT
         Eh? - (Another Scott) - (3) - June 18, 2005, 04:22:32 PM EDT
             OK, this guy lies - (broomberg) - (1) - June 18, 2005, 09:49:53 PM EDT
                 You trusted a post on Slashdot?!? :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - June 18, 2005, 10:21:47 PM EDT
             But I bet it can find Paris - (jbrabeck) - June 19, 2005, 04:46:55 PM EDT
         Here - (warmachine) - (2) - June 18, 2005, 04:24:57 PM EDT
             Reading? only the gaol is famous.. :-\ufffd - (Ashton) - (1) - June 18, 2005, 04:36:28 PM EDT
                 Reading: non-tourist Milton Keynes: soulless - (warmachine) - June 18, 2005, 07:13:29 PM EDT
         It still seems to have no idea of Sydney,Australia -NT - (Meerkat) - June 18, 2005, 09:20:15 PM EDT
         No can do. - (static) - (1) - June 20, 2005, 12:05:41 AM EDT
             Actually, a very basic map is possible. - (static) - June 20, 2005, 01:21:47 AM EDT
         Here - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 20, 2005, 01:01:35 AM EDT
             Looks like you're just up the road from drewk. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 20, 2005, 07:32:50 AM EDT
                 ho ho - (pwhysall) - June 20, 2005, 08:00:37 AM EDT
         Google Maps Not Yet Security Threat For UK - (pwhysall) - June 20, 2005, 01:52:15 AM EDT
         St.-Petersburg, Russia: zoom stops about mid-range - (Arkadiy) - (17) - June 24, 2005, 02:02:49 PM EDT
             Took a bit of doing; scrolled west from St Pete's... - (CRConrad) - (4) - June 25, 2005, 05:23:09 PM EDT
                 Neat. I was born here. - (Another Scott) - (2) - June 25, 2005, 06:06:13 PM EDT
                     Heh - me, I was apparently... - (CRConrad) - (1) - June 25, 2005, 06:49:19 PM EDT
                         Pretty town. Looks like a tourist trap. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - June 25, 2005, 06:54:34 PM EDT
                 which lilly pad is yours? nice boat country, pretty -NT - (boxley) - June 25, 2005, 05:46:43 PM EDT
             Satellite imagery okay for my part of Sydney. - (static) - (11) - June 26, 2005, 11:56:26 PM EDT
                 Thanks for the update. Missiles targeted, weapons free. -NT - (tuberculosis) - June 27, 2005, 12:46:13 AM EDT
                 What's the big round thing on the right-a dancing pavillion? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - June 27, 2005, 05:24:13 AM EDT
                     Water storage tank? -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - June 27, 2005, 08:22:12 AM EDT
                         Yep. Water tank. - (static) - (1) - June 28, 2005, 12:46:28 AM EDT
                             It's a beauty. :-) - (Another Scott) - June 28, 2005, 12:53:06 AM EDT
                 This is fascinating - (Meerkat) - (5) - June 27, 2005, 09:16:13 AM EDT
                     Holy CIA-targetting-fun, Batman! - (Ashton) - (4) - June 27, 2005, 09:43:42 PM EDT
                         We have plenty of roundabouts. - (static) - (3) - June 28, 2005, 12:49:53 AM EDT
                             Like UKs.. various -Circuses. Or around the Arc de Triomphe -NT - (Ashton) - (2) - June 28, 2005, 02:25:55 AM EDT
                                 Sydney has none that size. - (static) - (1) - June 28, 2005, 03:08:08 AM EDT
                                     Looks like ~ 1/3 of an Arondissement alright, but__!-Statues -NT - (Ashton) - June 28, 2005, 04:04:26 AM EDT

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