Leek, Staffordshire
Users of Google Earth on the Mac will know how wonderful a program it is, as will all the other users on other platforms to. This week I was reading the Google Mac Development blog and discovered that when Google Earth auto-centres itself on the UK (or US if you’re there), it doesn’t quite centre itself geo-graphically.
Usually the developer involved tweaks the centre slightly (this is different between operating systems I am informed) so that the geographic centre is over a town or city. In the States, Windows and Mac Developers choose their home towns in Texas albeit a different one for each platform.
In the UK, when using a Mac and Google Earth, the camera positions itself over the UK and if you press the + key, or zoom in without moving you will find yourself zooming into the town of Leek in Staffordshire. If anyone out there is using Windows and Google Earth, could they confirm if Leek is also the town they zoom into?
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