There are a bunch of parallel conversations spawned from this 2 year old blog post. For reference, here's the area the author talked about in current google ma

There are a bunch of parallel conversations spawned from this 2 year old blog post. For reference, here's the area the author talked about in current google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Huashan+Road,+Shanghai,+China&hl=en&ll=31.21148,121.452913&spn=0.041108,0.067205&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.545434,68.818359&vpsrc=6&hq=Huashan+Road,&hnear=Shanghai,+China&t=h&z=14&layer=t http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Huashan+Road,+Shanghai,+China&... The locations are all still off and they're consistently off by an offset throughout Shanghai. There might be some deliberate dishonesty by map makers in China, but I don't think this is evidence of it - I think this is just an inaccurate projection. If you want to make bad maps to confuse people - first, that's probably pretty impossible with current information systems, even in China, and second, this would be a really bad attempt at it.