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Of more interest to me would be whether the apple maps are being deliberately offset like the google ones are. You can't accurately use GPS with google maps in
by dageshi 14y ago
Of more interest to me would be whether the apple maps are being deliberately offset like the google ones are. You can't accurately use GPS with google maps in China because the map tiles are shifted by some arbitrary amount.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/maps/zVmRao1Im3w https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/m...
You can see it very clearly if you visit the Hong Kong/Shenzhen border on google maps and toggle between map & satellite, the border is a complete mess with large parts of the Mainland side appearing on the Hong Kong side.
I've always assumed this was a deliberate thing by the Chinese government (one way or another), I wonder if apple have got away without such treatment?
- olalonde 14y agoIt is apparently required by the Chinese government, see comment thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548840