La Hacquinière - Part 10 - Fun with the White Pages

Ever since the French White Pages went online (or, to be exact, on the internet, since they've been online on Minitel teletext for over two decades) they've enhanced their Paris directory listings with pictures of buildings. This has proven to be very useful when venturing to an unknown location, for instance when a Real Estate Agent has omitted to mention the sexshop on the ground floor.

In the interest of Universal Access, the White Pages now feature aerial pictures of all of France - presumably it would have been prohibitively expensive to take terrestrial photos of every building in the country, though it would have made for an interesting twist on the Domesday Book. However, the White Pages being French, they have not used the same bank as Google Earth, with mixed results.

In the picture above, La Hacquinière (longitude and lattitude hidden to preserve from Cruise Missile attacks) is correctly situated by the red circle, but the summer leaves make it difficult to see much on the ground. Score One for Google.
In the photo below, of my parents' Brittany home, the picture is much sharper than Google Earth's. Unfortunately, the red circle is nearly 200 yards too far north, and has my parents enjoying holidays at the Antony Colonie de Vacances.

And they say the Soviets published incorrect maps.