BBC online reported an earthquake in Greece. They felt the need to locate it.
Where is this Greece place you speak of?
January 6, 2008 | 3 Comments
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BBC online reported an earthquake in Greece. They felt the need to locate it.
January 7, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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.
January 7, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I fully expect a barrage of complaints about your comment from my Indonesian readers
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