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Yeah it's weird. A lot of countries try to interfere with global mapping anyway. Like China which has its entire country at an offset by using a slighly offset
by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah it's weird. A lot of countries try to interfere with global mapping anyway. Like China which has its entire country at an offset by using a slighly offset datum standard.
It's called the China GPS Shift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...
- notyourwork 1y agoFacts like this make me realize how peculiar things you have a general idea about are. Thanks for sharing, I learned something new today.
- supriyo-biswas 1y agoAnd there's an unofficial implementation of a mapping function https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform
- zamalek 1y ago> Yeah it's weird. When you consider SK's neighbors, and their neighbors' ambitions, it really isn't at all.
- wkat4242 1y agoYes but they (especially China who will share with NK anyway) have enough satellites of their own, they don't need Google.