{"id":4571,"date":"2008-08-30T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:48:18","slug":"great-moments-in-map-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/30\/great-moments-in-map-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Map Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/FFE6B7903BE86E1A862574B5000706CB?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs police investigated at the scene Friday night, groups of neighbors and teenagers gathered in the neighborhood of winding streets and newer homes northwest of Interstate 55 and Lindbergh Boulevard.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=9400+Green+Park+Valley+Drive+Missouri&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=31.922255,75.322266&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;s=AARTsJqU8lnnhRIdgUyhfaBpYszOCGwMHA&amp;ll=38.520235,-90.332165&amp;spn=0.023504,0.051498&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=9400+Green+Park+Valley+Drive+Missouri&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=31.922255,75.322266&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=38.520235,-90.332165&amp;spn=0.023504,0.051498&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That looks to be due north to me, not northwest.  Green Park does not even extend west of Lindbergh, but given that I&#8217;m a county resident who traverses these small communities daily and not an insular <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> The-City-Is-Back intern, I know these things enough to check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in this article: As police investigated at the scene Friday night, groups of neighbors and teenagers gathered in the neighborhood of winding streets and newer homes northwest of Interstate 55 and Lindbergh Boulevard. Except: View Larger Map That looks to be due north to me, not northwest. Green Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17417,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}