Re: OT: A Google funny.....

Peter Ceresole <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, I just tried it too. In fact there are a few places that have the
same names in the US, and Google seems to want to send you there, rather
than the UK destination.

When entering an address into Google, I reckon you always have to end it
with the country, as in 'London, UK'. For American addresses it needs
the state, as in 'Bozeman, MT'. Once it recognises the state
description, it assumes it's a US address, which is reasonable enough.
My main problem is in remembering the proper state suffixes; I suppose
MT is fine for Montana (as MO is Missouri) but Maryland is (I think) MD,
not MA, which may be Massachusetts. Possibly. Maybe. However, it's no
worse than the English counties.

There aren't fifty stupid, pointless, hard-to-remember two letter
abbreviations for English counties: they just have names. There aren't
even fifty English counties.

So you're wrong.

Any of these `look up table' ways of `simplifying' things make life
harder from some points of view - usually the poor sod at the sharp end
trying to make sense out of things.

Rowland.

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