Google Maps wipes out Scottish island of Jura [View all]

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The internet giant Google has said sorry after the Scottish island of Jura disappeared from its online maps.

Internet users noticed on Tuesday that the island, off the west coast of the Kintyre Peninsula, was visible on the satellite view but not the maps view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23331456

The thing is, the BBC says it was noticed on Tuesday - but it was noticed 11 days ago:

Lisa McDonald, who works at the Jura Hotel, was able to reassure the rest of Scotland that neither she nor any of her 187 fellow islanders had drowned.

“It’s definitely still here,” she said. “ I’m on it at the moment. We’re all safe and sound.”

She did urge, however, that Google “should sort it out soon”.

Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, is a lot of island for anyone to lose, measuring 31 miles long and with its highest point a substantial 785 metres.

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2013/07/05/google-says-sorry-for-sinking-island/

So Google's "we'll fix it as soon as possible" looks a little hollow. It's still there as just a road (you can see the line in the BBC in the BBC picture), and some lochs which are now in the middle of the ocean:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&ll=55.978409,-5.979309&spn=0.412608,1.352692&t=m&z=10