Why wasn't this page found?

Re:Why wasn't this page found? by lucasverra on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:49AM (#20490936)

this french one is awesome

https://www.gouvernement.fr/gouvernement/le-systeme-d-inform...

They are simulating a meeting to define how to announce that the resource is gone! :)

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by Keloo on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:09AM (#20490675)

lol, New Zealand is missing from the map.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by rgoulter on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:19AM (#20490694)

Also, current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern featured in a tourist ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI

(Though AFAIK it was reddit which popularised the joke first)

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by wyldfire on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:32AM (#20491465)

Apparently it's relatively common: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by fencepost on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:19PM (#20492796)

The page was revised in April, so it may be a reference to Ikea leaving the country off of a map: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/ikea-reportedly-apologizes-f...

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by FooHentai on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:06PM (#20493963)

IKEA is a special case for New Zealand, the story goes that NZ slighted IKEA in some way a long time ago, something like being unwilling to provide favorable zoning for a flagship store, and this resulted in IKEA leadership blacklisting NZ. This is often given as the reason that no store exists even today.

Quite possibly not true, more likely is that the small population and logistics complexity makes it uneconomical to service, especially for a brand that depends on scale.

Apparently they're launching a store soon anyway.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by rsynnott on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:48PM (#20494160)

IKEA-type shops were literally illegal in Ireland until recently (the law was changed in 2005 to allow limited types of shops, including IKEA, to have more than 6k sqm) and I don’t think they ever left us off their maps.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by baxtr on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:27AM (#20491727)

Are you sure it’s meant to be funny? The entire features some strange errors, like Sweden/Finnland being glued to mainland Europe?

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by vages on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:53PM (#20492615)

Europe got a really bad wrap in this picture. My guess is that it's the result of a bad automatic vectorization of a raster picture.

But I think that a missing NZ would stick out like a sore thumb to New Zealanders. Just like the Fennoscandian errors you mentioned sticks out to a Fennoscandian like me. It's intentional; no doubt.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by basch on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:38PM (#20492917)

look at the filename https://www.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/error-map-with-nz-gone2.j...

error-map-with-nz-gone2.jpg

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by princeb on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:07PM (#20494260)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

also i noticed gov.nz looks like gov.uk. both look great.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by avip on Sunday July 21, 2019 @08:59AM (#20491133)

slack has an eye-pleasing page https://slack.com/pi

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by mediumdeviation on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:00PM (#20493325)

It's a recreation of the game that Slack pivoted from. They also released most assets from the game into the public domain https://www.glitchthegame.com/

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by misterdoubt on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:22AM (#20496934)

RIP Glitch <3

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by w1nst0nsm1th on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:56PM (#20492634)

Magic... On tablet you can swipe through the scene.

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Re:Why wasn't this page found? by TeMPOraL on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:36AM (#20496743)

On desktop, the scene scrolls as you move your mouse.

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