How many doctors worked on Google Maps?
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I was objecting to the label “engineer’s syndrome”, not the application to Google Maps.
Though come to think of it… are you really objecting to a name being more accurate ? Please explain.
I just asked how many doctors worked on the subject matter covered in this thread.
Why would you ask me to explain, when there’s a whole thread about it here?
…because I don’t see an explanation of “why a more accurate answer is worse than a less accurate one” anywhere in that thread.
So classifying plane-derived aerial footage as ‘satellite’ is heresy; but ascribing a mixture of satellite and aircraft footage to birds is just honest clarity?
I think your pedantry needs a sanity check. Or, y’know better insistence on technical correctness in detail.
No doubt the lawyers put a stop to this.
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If course, this is also how satellites see the world now, so “Bird Mode” seems a little more sympathetic.
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Bing Maps offered something similar out of the gate, but I don’t think humor played into it…
(Can’t find a picture of that map now with a three country odyssey connecting two adjacent small towns in Norway.)
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I’m not an engineer, so I couldn’t explain it to you.
Considering my (admittedly anecdotal) experience with engineers as a breed apart from scientists, I find calling it “Engineer’s Syndrome” highly apt. Doubt (or rather the lack thereof in engineers) is the defining trait.
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