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> Actually I am out of date, it looks like the South Korea maps are vector based now. Maybe the law changed. It definitely used to be the case. The South Korea
by lifthrasiir 5y ago
> Actually I am out of date, it looks like the South Korea maps are vector based now. Maybe the law changed. It definitely used to be the case.
The South Korean mapping law allows for the domestic service (still subject to slight censorship), but Google didn't want to put any servers other than edge servers to South Korea so as a sort of protest it essentially froze the map for South Korea from November 2016 to December 2021, when Google finally gave up and established a new domestic data center.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoEdit: as joatmon-snoo [1] pointed out, there were no new Google data center as opposed to new GCP regions in SK. I mistook my sources due to my dodgy reading. That said, I now have an even stronger suspicion; see my reply to joatmon-snoo for details. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521352