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Relief is at hand for Googlers who get caught short while out shopping - Google Australia may have got its hands on the National Toilet Database. This is just one of the new data sets that Google Australia is planning to incorporate into its Google Maps platform, courtesy of a major "open access" initiative by the Government 2 …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Brilliant.

    Off to write a FOI request...

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  2. s. pam Silver badge
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    Flush Thrice, gotta make it to Oz

    Oztrangelia, the final dumping ground of Plant Earth, has been gargled....down the bog :)

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  3. Goat Jam
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    Ah yes, the DSE

    "Google’s request to the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) fell foul of current laws on Crown copyright"

    What a bunch of numpties they are. One minute they are refusing to authorise fuel reduction burns on environmental grounds, the next minute they are lighting fuel reduction burns of their own on a day where the temperature is in the mid thirties and is expected to be for some days after, only to find that they have to reclassify the "controlled burn" as a "bushfire emergency" within a couple of hours of starting it!

    Classic stuff!

    Here is a Rupert-Link, click it while you still can!

    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26334681-29277,00.html

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    re: @Goat Jam

    Rupert-link.... I love it.

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