A momet of surreality

[telophase]

1. Go to Which WIch website (www.whichwich.com)
2. Choose 'Location', trying not to be too annoyed by Flash
3. CLick on Texas
4. Scroll down to the Fort Worth (Hulen) location
5. CLick on "Map"
6. Get sent to Google Maps, with a blank map
7. Note that it is zoomed all the way in
8. Zoom out
9. Discover that it has sent you to the middle of Morocco, not Fort Worth, TX


I will be interested to know if anyone else has the same experience, although as I'm heading out to WHich Wich - Fort Worth, not Morocco - I will see your answers later.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

*headtilt*
Yes.
Yes indeed.
That's AWESOME. (In the sense that my household uses it, "Cory-awesome," after our roommate who would apply it to things like the Street Fighter movie and the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.)

I don't quite understand what they're doing because if you enter the address as it appears in the address box, you get, you know, TEXAS. For some reason, they have what looks like two sets of coordinates in the actual URL that gets sent to the browser. The first set is in Texas, but the ending string is in Morocco--oh, because it's the first set repeated but with the second part of the coordinates chopped off, so instead of being -97.415192 degrees it's just -9. That would change the location a BIT.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

It gave me Fort Worth.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Which Fort Worth location did you try? It's the Hulen location that ends up in Morocco for me, the rest are normal.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

5135 S. Hulen St.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Huh. Weeeeird. It's still giving me Morocco.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

I tried it again and it gave me Morocco this time. Oh wait, I see. When you zoom in, the map centers on Morocco, but when you zoom all the wait out to the earth view, the pointer is actually in the right spot.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

It's a weird effect of the zooming. I zoomed out a little, got Morocco. Then I zoomed out all the way and then back in; that recentered the map on Fort Worth.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

So ... does Which Wich? have a location in Morocco? 'Cause I might be craving a hoagie next time I'm in Casablanca.