{"id":8033,"date":"2020-07-08T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2020-07-08T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:24:05","slug":"google-maps-simplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/07\/08\/google-maps-simplified\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Simplified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snazzymaps.com\/style\/219369\/simplified-duha\">Simplified by Duha<\/a>, a nice fast clean way to use Google Maps for simple &#8220;where is it?&#8221; lookup, with only major tourist attractions pinned and all the pin-and-label spam gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/simplified.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/simplified.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8034\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regrettably only the &#8216;known to officialdom&#8217; green-spaces are marked, and for instance you can see here that the green bit of Festival Park is not green. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not mown by the local Council, but rather is tended privately by St. Modwen. Thus it&#8217;s not on the Council&#8217;s GIS maps, and thus &#8220;doesn&#8217;t exist&#8221; when it comes to showing the world the green spaces in the city. But, for a simplified map it&#8217;s still pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>No little yellow &#8220;Google Streetview guy&#8221; to drag and drop, but the far faster-to-load option for that on a desktop is an install of the free Google Earth. Google Earth also has access to StreetView.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simplified by Duha, a nice fast clean way to use Google Maps for simple &#8220;where is it?&#8221; lookup, with only major tourist attractions pinned and all the pin-and-label spam gone. Regrettably only the &#8216;known to officialdom&#8217; green-spaces are marked, and for instance you can see here that the green bit of Festival Park is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}