> One story I heard was that the Chinese government intentionally makes its published maps inaccurate by basically offsetting it by a few meters It’s still cur

> One story I heard was that the Chinese government intentionally makes its published maps inaccurate by basically offsetting it by a few meters It’s still current but much more complex than this, and offsets can be of more than 500 meters (that’s not just a few). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat... I still don’t think it makes much sense currently. I would guess any opposing army would get coordinates for a strike from satellite imagery, and not from maps (let alone Chinese ones)