Where is this Greece place you speak of?
Posted on January 6, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Commentary.
BBC online reported an earthquake in Greece. They felt the need to locate it.
3 Replies to "Where is this Greece place you speak of?"
conor on January 7, 2008
I fully expect a barrage of complaints about your comment from my Indonesian readers 
greece on January 15, 2008
Where is this Greece place you speak of?…
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Jason on January 7, 2008
That’s just a standard templated map, probably generated by a script. I’d imagine BBC News do this because they make lots of them, quickly.
E.g…
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44339000/jpg/_44339024_skorea_icheon_jan08.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44337000/gif/_44337002_pak_nw_frontier_map203.gif
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42832000/gif/_42832989_iraq_bagh_mos_map203.gif
You’re also assuming that everyone reading the site is in Europe and is well educated in geography. Perhaps someone in Indonesia, Chile, or the USA (joke) would need a little help locating a relatively small country in Europe.