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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2014-05-03 09:13 am
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"Basingstoke it is." "Then make it so."

I never think of Basingstoke (or indeed anywhere north-east of Winchester) as "proper" Hampshire, but even I must feel sorry for the people of Basingstoke, who have been wiped from the map by a Google error, at least temporarily - as witnessed by this screenshot taken five minutes ago:

Whither Basingstoke?


What will Mad Margaret do now, poor thing?
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[personal profile] gillo 2014-05-03 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
I note that the Wiltshire village of Ramsbury is there, but Wokingham has also vanished. Scale is clearly beneath their notice.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2014-05-03 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
It is a bit random. Wokingham will appear in you zoom in enough, however, whereas Basingstoke remains terra incognita...