Should Google Maps be Used for This?
For some reason, a little bird has told me that people have been hunting for a map of prostitutes working the streets of Milan.
“Does such a thing exist?”, I wondered, and hopped onto the www to find out. Well, at one point some ,presumably, Italians had managed to place such a map on Google Maps, of all places.
Google, possibly as a result of certain posts on Italian blogs, such as this on Tentativi - La Mappa delle prostitute di Milano, acted quickly and put a stop to this rather sordid exploitation of Web 2.0.
However, and as is the often the case with the www, the ‘map’ was simply moved, and still exploits Google Italy maps, even if it claims to be a form of protest now. Read more
Milan’s Ecopass is back from its Vacation
As Milan crawls slowly back to life after the summer recess, its Ecopass traffic anti-pollution charge comes back on-line.
A map of Milan’s Ecopass zone is shown in the following post.
A Chinese Puzzle
We all remember the sad case of poor Maddie McCann, the little English girl who disappeared while her parents where on holiday in Portugal, well, my other half possibly managed to avert a similar situation yesterday, Sunday, in Milan. Read more
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