[OSM-talk] Google using AND for China coverage

[Corey Burger]

On 9/28/07, Ray Booysen <raybooysen at rjb.za.net> wrote:
> D Tucny wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I noticed recently that google maps, the english/international version
> > at maps.google.com <http://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=1
> > <http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.968701,116.268311&spn=1.852348,5.537109&z=8&om=1>
> > to 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
> > <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
> > <http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=39.968701&lon=116.268311&zoom=8&layers=0B00F000>
> >
> > d
> I've seen Google using quite a bit of AND's data.  Portions of Australia
> are used too.  Seems to depend on the zoom level on data suppliers

All the data in ZA appears to be AND as well. It it utter junk, TBH.

Corey