On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/1/19 ss <[email protected]>: >> On Monday 18 Jan 2010 9:21:25 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
>>> 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. Bingo. As in most things do not assume the reality you are seeing is universal. Google's results are context dependent and there is a whole department (and a bunch of policy) about who sees what kind of results when. AP is hardly the only example. The name of the "Sea of Japan" is a delicate issue to China and Korea for example. -- Charles
