Holes in the cloud?
This morning my Google Maps started saying “Sorry, not that level of detail” on (satellite) maps that previously showed such detail. This weekend my OpenID logins started failing for some obscure reason. Last week AddThis had database connectivity issues that lasted for days (until they moved datacenters.) Each of these gave me an extra grey hair or two as I realized my inability to participate in solving them, and got me wondering about transitions away/to something else.
Sure, integrating services from the cloud is the way to go, but it what a house of cards. Pick those services wisely. I wonder how long before we get all the enterprise service monitoring/rating/review apps for cloud services.
2 Comments on “Holes in the cloud?”
Do you still see the problem with Google Maps? I work on Google Maps and would like to track it down.
Thanks for checking in, but it was transient and gone in not much time. I was viewing this map (down at the mouth of the canyon) and I wa defaulting to hybrid mode at the time.
http://wildobs.com/map/Coal-Creek-Canyon-CO
Could it have been some transient network glitches from my browser (or OpenDNS provider?) causing download problems, and perhaps a generic message? Not sure.
Thanks for your works, I’ve enjoyed working with your mapping.
P.S. I really struggle geo-coding locations that are off the beaten path, or part way down a road/highway. Any pointers on how I (and my users) get less geocoding lookup failures?
P.S. See that North Jeffco Mountain Park listed there? I am told that was donated to Golden Gate State Park a few years ago & ought be lsited as such.