{"id":443,"date":"2004-04-26T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/26\/personal-bugaboo-no-pointers-to-online-map-services\/"},"modified":"2004-04-26T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T19:22:08","slug":"personal-bugaboo-no-pointers-to-online-map-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/26\/personal-bugaboo-no-pointers-to-online-map-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Bugaboo &#8211; no pointers to online map services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not an edtech related post but I felt the need to rant and well, it&#8217;s my blog so I&#8217;ll rant if I want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is beyond me how there still exist any institutional websites that offer &#8216;Contact Pages&#8217; with their address but that don&#8217;t also use one the myriad online maps services that exist to point to an online map of their location. You know, handy sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.maps.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Maps<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.ca\/\">Mapquest<\/a>. Maybe these are the same people who think the Internet is simply a &#8216;fad,&#8217; just like &#8216;horse-less carriages.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Unless my relationship with the person is restricted solely to face to face or the phone (which is increasingly rare for me) I basically refuse to write out in long directions to anywhere anymore &#8211; instead, I simply point folks to a URL and let them build their own map. For instance, if you ever want to come visit my office, you can find me <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&amp;csz=V8P3K1&amp;country=ca&amp;new=1&amp;name=&amp;qty=\">here<\/a>. Lucky for me, there is a campus next door to the one I have to visit tomorrow (that visit having prompted the above rant) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcit.ca\/InfoBooth\/bby_campus.shtml\">gets it.<\/a> &#8211; SWL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not an edtech related post but I felt the need to rant and well, it&#8217;s my blog so I&#8217;ll rant if I want to&#8230; It is beyond me how there still exist any institutional websites that offer &#8216;Contact Pages&#8217; with their address but that don&#8217;t also use one the myriad online maps services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/26\/personal-bugaboo-no-pointers-to-online-map-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Personal Bugaboo &#8211; no pointers to online map services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}