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Show how Google Maps renders disputed territories differently depending on who's looking (in-progress for #owhack)
http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/
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Viewers in China see..... #22

Open pignut opened 8 years ago

pignut commented 8 years ago

Nothing. Or whatever the country their VPN routes through allows them to see. Google, and Google maps are blocked in China. VPN's are technically illegal but sometimes tolerated, many people use them, but foreign sites are extremely slow to load. Chinese people would be more likely to look at the map on Baidu maps. Baidu is like a Chinese version of Google, which abides by Chinese law and primarily directs surfers to Chinese websites. It loads in seconds.

Ninedyz commented 8 years ago

I'm from China. Apparently what they are using is ditu.google.cn, which is ACCESSIBLE in China along with translate.google.cn, because their servers are in Beijing. Content on ditu.google.cn is different from (the blocked) maps.google.com but completely legal in China, since it's localized and censored, or say, approved by the government.

BTW Gaode maps（高德地图） is also widely used in China, and there are too many advertisements on Baidu maps ( ´Д｀)=3