Hi Billy, On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:56 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> After the Chinese demands for Arunachal Pradesh, Google now has started > FOOLING Indians as well! > INDIAN VERSION (http://maps.google.com) > CHINESE VERSION (http://ditu.google.com/) Hardly "fooling" with Indians per se. ditu.google.com is the Chinese-sanitized version of Google maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Google_Ditu > There are some differences in frontier alignments between Google Ditu and > Google Maps. On Google Maps, sections of the Chinese border with India and > Pakistan are shown with dotted lines, indicating areas or frontiers in > dispute. However, Google Ditu shows the Chinese frontier strictly according > to Chinese claims with no dotted lines indicating the border with India and > Pakistan. For example, the area now administered by India called Arunachal > Pradesh (referred to as "South Tibet" by China) is shown inside the Chinese > frontier by Google Ditu, with Indian highways ending abruptly at the Chinese > claim line. Google Ditu also shows Taiwan and the South China Sea Islands as > part of China. As of May 2009, Google Ditu's street map coverage of Taiwan > also omits major state organs, such as the Presidential Palace, the five > Yuans, and the Supreme Court. The better criticism would be that "Google Kowtows to China by giving them their own politically correct version" -- there's nothing particularly Indian-specific about any of these renderings. -- Ernie P. _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
