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How did Google comply? There are no datacenters in Russia and it shut down the only engineering office there. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/goo
by puzzle 9y ago
How did Google comply? There are no datacenters in Russia and it shut down the only engineering office there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-engineering-office-russia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-...
- vkou 9y agoIt's always possible to store your data in the Russian equivalent of AWS. (Even if your web application and its secret sauce is running out of your own data center.)
- puzzle 9y agoI know how Google infrastructure worked up to a couple of years ago, including user-specific storage. What you describe would be a very large undertaking across a large number of projects. Due to legal restrictions, Maps has something ad-hoc just for South Korean tiles, which is a much simpler problem. Not only it's extremely clumsy, it also adds a lot of limitations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31568460/google-maps-style-does-not-apply-to-the-korea-area https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31568460/google-maps-sty... https://www.theverge.com/tech/2013/10/13/4835026/why-google-cant-give-you-driving-directions-in-south-korea https://www.theverge.com/tech/2013/10/13/4835026/why-google-...