On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:20:14 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> On 03/12/2011 01:51 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>>> Photos are *not* expensive.
>>>
>>> Interesting. Last time my parents had me and my sister photographed
>>> and framed, it ended up costing several hundred pounds. Obviously, I
>>> do not have that kind of money just laying around.
>>
>> That's the joy of Google Maps at work - finding something that fits the
>> budget. :)
> 
> In my enterience, Google Maps is very bad at figuring out exactly where
> stuff is (postcodes aren't very accurate spatially, after all), and an
> extremely small number of business show up on the maps. Much better to
> do a normal Google web search and go from there...

All I did was go to Milton Keynes in maps and then searched on 
"photography studio".  Worked just fine.

>>> (I did try using Google to find the place where we had it done, but it
>>> doesn't seem to exist any more... Some shop called Olan Mills.
>>> Wikipedia says something about the UK group being liquidated...)
>>
>> Now *that's* funny, because my parents used to take my brother and I to
>> an Olan Mills (or perhaps it was Olin Mills?) studio in the Minneapolis
>> area.
> 
> Yeah, apparently it's an American company. (I always thought it was just
> the one small shop in the village highstreet, but no, apparently it's
> this huge company...) Apparently only the UK side shut down.

Interesting....

Jim

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