{"id":49,"date":"2007-11-16T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-11-16T01:32:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:32:16","slug":"internet-oddity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Internet oddity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed that Google has skipped a UI beat in Google Maps and Google Earth?<\/p>\n

Try entering a latitude \/ longitude value to either.<\/p>\n

Unless you get it exactly right, both systems fuss and stonewall.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Is there some silly patent out there?<\/p>\n

Anyway, it turns out that parsing lat\/lon gets dirty fast. Sort of like parsing arbitrary time\/dates.<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot: \/cgi-bin\/latlon_cgi.py<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Har, har. Should someone write a GreaseMonkey script to “fix” input to Google Maps with an XMLHttpRequest? That<\/strong> would be keeping in the Web 2.0 river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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