2010/1/19 ss <[email protected]>: > On Monday 18 Jan 2010 9:21:25 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote: >> If interested, in India and near a TV set tuned to Times Now at 930 >> pm, some 10 minutes from now, and if otherwise bored, you could do >> worse than hear me debate the subject. >> >> Mahesh > > Well on 16th August 2009 I put the following message on Silk and got no > response > >> I note that Google earth at low res shows the North East Indian state of >> Arunachal Pradesh as a separate country. >> >> At higher resolutions that state and the borders of other states with China >> are colored red - presumably indicating "disputed terrotory" >> >> But Google's policy is clearly inconsistent - neither the Falklands nor >> Taiwan are marked as disputed, which they are. >> >> Whom does one contact for this sort of error?
At higher resolutions, Google sees where you are accessing Maps from and shows Arunachal as part of India if accessed from India and part of China if accessed from there. Recently they decided to remove all censors from its applications in China (the motivation for which has been discussed to death), but I don't know if this affects the above as well. I would guess the right thing to do would be just to show it as disputed territory to everyone and be done with it. So in short, its not an error, but deliberate. As for Falklands and Taiwan, it may be because their sovereignty is recognized by most countries. Kiran
