[OSM-talk] Google using AND for China coverage

[D Tucny]

Hi Folks,

I noticed recently that google maps, the english/international version at
maps.google.com has data for China again, it all disappeared some time ago,
potentially due to their classification of Taiwan... What I didn't notice
until today however is that the copyright info at the bottom shows that one
of the sources is AND which I thought was kind of interesting...

Check out
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.968701,116.268311&spn=1.852348,5.537109&z=8&om=1to
see how Beijing looks...

The data they have there seems pretty old and while they have city
locations, the roads don't really give a good idea of what's there today...

For comparison, try google's Chinese version of the map...
http://ditu.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hl=zh-CN&f=q&ll=39.968701,116.268311&spn=1.852348,5.537109&z=8&om=1

or, our very own version...
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=39.968701&lon=116.268311&zoom=8&layers=0B00F000

d
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