All Maps in China are Transformed
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All Maps in China are Transformed
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Re: All Maps in China are Transformed
#2Do they use navigation via GPS there? Can't imagine how that would work with "random" maps ...
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#3Is OpenStreetMaps blocked in China? If not, there could be huge precedence to subvert this.
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#4How is this news? I work in the digital mapping world and there everybody knows this. You cannot even get the data out of China, all data has to stay within China and if you want to do map business in China, you can only do it through a joint-venture with a Chinese company.
[edit] BTW: India is similar, they are not scrambling the map, but it cannot leave the country either. So as a map-maker you have to have a local company there in order to do business.
Re: All Maps in China are Transformed
#5How is this news? I work in the digital mapping world and there everybody knows this. You cannot even get the data out of China, all data has to stay within China and if you want to do map business in China, you can only do it through a joint-venture with a Chinese company. [edit] BTW: India is similar, they are not scrambling the map, but it cannot leave the country either. So as a map-maker you have to have a local…
It's news to the rest of us who don't work in that world.
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#6I've been in Beijing for the past 3 months, and I've been relying solely on Google Maps to get around. I never had one single problem. If there ever was any discrepancy between maps and the real world, I didn't see it.
I don't doubt there are issues, but in Beijing I haven't seen them.
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#7I've been in Beijing for the past 3 months, and I've been relying solely on Google Maps to get around. I never had one single problem. If there ever was any discrepancy between maps and the real world, I didn't see it. I don't doubt there are issues, but in Beijing I haven't seen them.
It's generally not by much, but when you're relying on google maps to get exact coordinates, you might get into trouble.
If you switch between map and satellite mode here, you have a distance of about 390m between the location in both maps.
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#8Is OpenStreetMaps blocked in China? If not, there could be huge precedence to subvert this.
OSM is banned in China [0].
[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_China#Legalit...
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#9I've been in Beijing for the past 3 months, and I've been relying solely on Google Maps to get around. I never had one single problem. If there ever was any discrepancy between maps and the real world, I didn't see it. I don't doubt there are issues, but in Beijing I haven't seen them.
It's generally not by much, but when you're relying on google maps to get exact coordinates, you might get into trouble. If you switch between map and satellite mode here, you have a distance of about 390m between the location in both maps. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.25977,108.946309&num=1&...
Yes and there is a fix in a cyanogen modded version.
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#10Could it be true also for the some parts of Europe ? When i was in Belgium ( Brugge ) and Germany ( Nürnberg, Berlin ) i used google maps a lot. And i realised some streets, not all, looks longer or shorter than others on the map.