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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2020-08-20 09:52 pm
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taking data at face value

This is surreal. A year ago, somebody entering data on Open Street Map recorded a suburban building as being 212 stories. A backyard shed, apparently. It seems to have been an honest typo, later corrected. It happens. No big deal, right?

The error was later corrected by another [profile] openstreetmap user, BUT, in the interim, Microsoft took an export of the data and used it to build Flight Simulator 2020. The result... this incredible monolith (2/2)

The original thread where people tracked it down is hilarious.

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[personal profile] ellenmillion 2020-08-21 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
HAHA. That's amazing.
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[personal profile] asher553 2020-08-21 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is awesome!