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gambasbo · Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 93 Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia

Grrr!!!! It says Cochabamba is an invalid city!

Mike

matttheboy · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 854 Location: Valparaiso, Chile

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

It said Bogota was an invalid city too.. What you have to do (or what I did for Bogota) was just type in "Cochabamba" and then wait for the drop down menu to give you an option which may or may not say "Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia"...

Took me about 6 tries, but I got there...

gambasbo · Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 93 Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia

I actually eat a lot healthier here than I ever did in Britain.

Mike

gambasbo · Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 93 Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia

Thanks lozwich, I'm on. Glad to see your 'friendly' face back!

Mike

Cdaniels

I'm tempted to say its a bad idea just to be contrary to all you pollyannas. Actually, I'm a bit worried that I'll later regret identifying my location. Doomed, I tell you! We're all doomed!
Laughing

mahajosh · Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 21 Location: Lima, Peru

Guy, that was pretty impressive! I thought I was doing well creatively with my Seinfeld-like observations on Lime�a life, but I�m afraid you�ve got me beat. The Map program is pretty messed up, it told me twice that Lima Peru was an invalid city. WHen I finally got it to work, it insisted on putting "Lima, Callao".
Which is sort of like insisting on "New York, Newark". Callao is quite a craphole....I�ve got relatives there who have a very nice house....but craphole all the same. And it also has the brewery producing the worst beer in all of Peru

Gregor · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 842 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

It's been quite the ordeal,
But I got Shenyang to post. So now I'm in TWO places. Umm...Let's see if I can't fix that...

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

thelmadatter · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: China and Google

I made a map for the alumni of my masters program. A friend of mine in China says the map doesnt appear for her, probably because Google is blocked in China. Anyone else have this problem?

Gregor · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 842 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

HA!
No, google isn't blocked in China (though it's a fair assumption, I guess). I'm in China. Though I have had my own, well-chronicled, problems with the map.

Yeah, Guy, karma. Maybe I need to just chill. This is all symptomatic of my "short-timing." I now know I'll be leaving soon, so I am taking a broader look at the world once again.
Its an interesting phenomenon. When I know where I'll be for a while (like, at the beginning of a contract, or half-way through a two-year contract or something), the world is a BIG OL' PLACE, and it's WAY OUT THERE. As PJ O'Roarke puts it, thinking about the world is sort of like being in some sort of traffic accident, when you're driving, say, a huge 1959 Cadillac - you are aware of something going on, but it's so far away and so unlikely to effect you or your life at the moment that you just carry on driving.
But now that I know I'll be leaving China, I'm all about the rest of the world, especially the parts that I miss so much.
That accounts for my sudden appearance in the Latin American forums.