Google Maps wipes out Scottish island of Jura

[muriel_volestrangler]

The internet giant Google has said sorry after the Scottish island of Jura disappeared from its online maps.

Internet users noticed on Tuesday that the island, off the west coast of the Kintyre Peninsula, was visible on the satellite view but not the maps view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23331456

The thing is, the BBC says it was noticed on Tuesday - but it was noticed 11 days ago:

Lisa McDonald, who works at the Jura Hotel, was able to reassure the rest of Scotland that neither she nor any of her 187 fellow islanders had drowned.

“It’s definitely still here,” she said. “ I’m on it at the moment. We’re all safe and sound.”

She did urge, however, that Google “should sort it out soon”.

Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, is a lot of island for anyone to lose, measuring 31 miles long and with its highest point a substantial 785 metres.

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2013/07/05/google-says-sorry-for-sinking-island/

So Google's "we'll fix it as soon as possible" looks a little hollow. It's still there as just a road (you can see the line in the BBC in the BBC picture), and some lochs which are now in the middle of the ocean:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&ll=55.978409,-5.979309&spn=0.412608,1.352692&t=m&z=10

[dipsydoodle]

1. Eejots.

A road in the middle of nowhere in the Irish Sea.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Damn climate change!

Thanks, Obama!

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. Apparently there is a floating road there

But it's not in the Irish sea. It's in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland on Loch Fyne.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Imma definitely make a note for my next road trip

That Loch Fyne traffic is usually murder even without any local submergence!

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. I used to kayak around there in the summer

It did appear to be disappearing even then... so it's taken about 30 years to melt away, I see....

[JHB]

5. It had to be demolished to build a bypass.

Gotta build bypasses.

Don't Panic!

[corkhead]

7. this is a very curiously Orwellian disappearance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Jura_and_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

George Orwell wrote 1984 there. Hmmm...

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. It's gone down the memory hole; maybe the Isle of Ogilvy will appear in a few days

named, of course, after the heroic Comrade Ogilvy.

[KG]

8. basterds!

[dorkzilla]

9. I hope Muckle Flugga is okay!

Because you can't screw with Muckle Flugga you muthas!

[PADemD]

10. Beautiful place!

http://www.jurainfo.com/isle-of-jura-images-wallpaper.html

Interesting. George Orwell wrote 1984 while living on the Isle of Jura.

[postulater]

11. Obviously got sucked into the Whirlpool of Corrievreckan.

[dembotoz]

12. google always wants to be ahead of the curve--maybe the island just doesn't know its gone yet

should we tell them?