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I was just in China over the border from Hong Kong and Google maps felt to just be offset to the west and a bit north by about 500m. Once you mentally adjusted
by reustle 11y ago
I was just in China over the border from Hong Kong and Google maps felt to just be offset to the west and a bit north by about 500m. Once you mentally adjusted to that, the maps still felt very accurate. Check out the border and look how the roads are all cut off at the border, very weird
- Raticide 11y agoI was in China and Google Maps was blocked. I hope you weren't being naughty and bypassing their firewall.
- reustle 11y agoNope, I had a sim from hong kong (which didn't work literally 200 feet past the border) but had all the maps cached. The GPS obviously still works offline, so it was just running in offline mode.
- janekm 11y agoYou can get cross-border sims now which let you use the HK network (going around the GFW) even on the mainland.
- wepple 11y agoIn Shenzhen? Yeah everything is off by just enough to make google maps no good - it shows several streets in the PRC side accidentally go across the river to HK. I spent several months there and Bing maps was the winner.
- janekm 11y agoOddly, when I checked during the last few days Google Maps suddenly got a lot better, including 3D buildings and accuracy to about 50m for GPS location. Maybe something changed recently? There have been rumours about Google re-engaging in China (to fix their Android woes)
- janekm 11y agoSo it wasn't after all, with more testing... I must have been lucky and hit a spot where the obfuscation distance was small.