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Comment by raldi | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry, but can someone paste the part of this article where Google announces anything about 400 years? I can't find it.

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I'm thinking it's a ploy to get people to read yet another criticism of Apple's new maps.

We get it, they're bad.

EDIT: Frankly, I think it's pretty hilarious this article is so long and formal.

I actually found this article to be the first one that didn't just criticize Apple, but actually made suggestions about how they should go about fixing it. It was rather interesting for someone like me who has no experience in map making, to see how much is really involved in digital cartography.

edit: on a related note, I always took google maps for granted, but now that I realize how fantastic of an effort it must take to map the world to the degree they do, I have much more respect for it, and I think it is amazing in terms of "cataloging the worlds information".

The Atlantic recently wrote up a nice piece on Google Maps. It explores just how complex the whole operation is, how many humans and machines are involved in making Google's maps...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...

Very interesting article, thanks for the read.

That article is a bit infamous for its over-the-top advertisement value by now.

See e.g. http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=394

Hey now, only an average of 20% of all front-page stories in the past 24 hours have been bashing on the new maps app. That's tame by HN groupmind standards.

God I hate clickbait.

Thanks for the warning though

This isn't some point-and-laugh thing. It's informative and interesting. If this is "long and formal" to you, I don't know what to say. It's like 500 words, and a bunch of it is bulleted points.

If you read the OP carefully, you will find that it is an implicit announcement. Google hasn't announced it explicitly. But the amount of hard work and time that they have put in, takes them years ahead. The number 400 is open to discussion and interpretations.

Read some of the other comments to find out how it can be interpreted.

Linkbait headline, got it.

Welcome to basher news.

Guess this means Apple really has taken over for Microsoft!

Sure, you could say that. But what I really mean is that the average HNer shifted his focus. And that's plain sad.

I used to feel the same way. My memories from back in the day were all articles about crazy programming languages, and cool new things people were doing. But that's when I was just starting out. In retrospect, I don't think that Hacker News has changed much, those articles are still there, but now I just get suckered into these kinds of articles for some reason. I think most people here will find much the same, when you join, you find the cool stuff. As you stick around, you start to get pulled into the linkbait/news type articles. As I'm sure people think it had already gone downhill by the time I joined 1.5yrs ago...

I started disliking Apple way before it was cool.

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