{"id":247,"date":"2009-08-18T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T11:27:37","slug":"an-a-z-of-the-british-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/18\/an-a-z-of-the-british-isles\/","title":{"rendered":"An A-Z Of The British Isles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last entry discussed how <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s search homepage has been used to celebrate many significant events throughout history &#8211; very worthwhile if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/\">Google Maps<\/a> is also very useful. Most trips I make to places I don&#8217;t know are planned out on Google <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google Maps\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Maps<\/a> first, either using <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Satellite imagery\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satellite_imagery\">satellite images<\/a>, or maps or a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p>Google Maps was recently put to great use by Rachel Young. She spent 15 hours trying to find all 26 letters of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Alphabet\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alphabet\">alphabet<\/a> on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"British Isles\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=54.0,-4.0&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=54.0,-4.0 (British%20Isles)&amp;t=h\">British Isles<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/picture-galleries\/5757548\/The-Google-Maps-alphabet-UK-an-A-to-Z-of-the-British-Isles.html\" target=\"blank\">Here are her results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/picture-galleries\/5757548\/The-Google-Maps-alphabet-UK-an-A-to-Z-of-the-British-Isles.html\" target=\"blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last entry discussed how Google&#8216;s search homepage has been used to celebrate many significant events throughout history &#8211; very worthwhile if you ask me. However, Google Maps is also very useful. Most trips I make to places I don&#8217;t know are planned out on Google Maps first, either using satellite images, or maps or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,25],"tags":[90,312,523,1287,1296,1873],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awesomeness","category-linkage","category-photographs","tag-90","tag-august","tag-british-isles","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-map","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-3Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}