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Interesting. Why can't maps be produced using satellite photos?
by _greim_ 11y ago
Interesting. Why can't maps be produced using satellite photos?
- jackvalentine 11y agoThe problem isn't of producing a map, it's of publishing it. If you go ahead and do that be prepared to find yourself locked out of anything to do with China.
- _greim_ 11y agoBut if the bottleneck is publication, not data gathering, then why does the Chinese government bother cracking down on map making activities? > Three British geology students discovered this the hard way while “collecting data” on a 2009 field trip...
- jackvalentine 11y agoBecause I was responding to your "why can't they be done with satellite photos?"
- est 11y ago> then why does the Chinese government bother cracking down on map making activities Most China polices can be explained by the "fuck you" treatment. What is "fuck you" treatment? Well fuck you go figure it out yourself.
- b6 11y agoSee also: "no why". Paranoid psychopaths are so obsessed with keeping a stranglehold on every possible thing that they design algorithms to screw up maps, causing untold problems, inconvenience, extra costs, incompatibility, etc. It's reverse-engineered and compensated for by everyone else, but they just keep doing it. Why? No why. #china. My cynicism is, I think, my way of dealing with heartbrokenness.
- wongarsu 11y agoFor large companies or government the bottleneck is publication. Most individuals don't care about repercussions from a foreign country and could publish with little practical problems, but those people don't have access to spy satellites.
- coldtea 11y ago>then why does the Chinese government bother cracking down on map making activities? Try collecting map data as a foreigner in the US (or most countries for that matter), and you'll find out, especially if you go anywhere near sensitive facilities.