The China version of Google Earth suspended in geography
. Tianditu, China's ambitious version of Google Earth, est arousing scorn among the local surfers errors toponmicos Geographically and collecting, and not only outside of their geography, as the mysterious cities named 'Unk 'in Espaao in the UK.
Chinese forums, the country's independent press and the Internet global asian estn checking how China sees the world after ostracize Google in its territory: South of London, west of, wow power leveling, Madrid and hundreds of locations throughout the global village is repeated 'Unk', for many an English abbreviation of 'unknown' (unknown).
In the Spanish territory resurrects the communist nomenclature rge Franco with terms like the Seo de Urgel or errneamente Ovid called the capital of Asturias. Although in general the Peninsula, the Chinese technicians have removed the Basque Country, this, darkfall online gold, one emerges to bring the map, similar to what happens in Turkey, where Tuanditu sweeps at a stroke capital, Istanbul, in a general vision, while another more closely, the city appears again, but next to the old nomenclature, Constantinople.
Errors multiply in Latin America, Europe and the rest of the planet, but also at home. Hainan, the island province, global agenda credits, of southern China, is situated in Japan, while China's Cantner province (southern China) appears in South Korea. The famous Tiananmen Square, where in 1989 the Chinese army sea hundreds of students and emblematic of Peking Pacific, appears in a restaurant in Shanghi, the second city in the country, and the Great Wall, four sections of which are located near Peking, est south of the Yangtze river, according Tianditu.cn.
Results misplaced
These and others are making hundreds of mistakes delight the Internet more ironic, that on Thursday read about the inauguration of Tianditu that their system was "superior" to other digital maps such as Google, State Bur words Surveyor China. According to the Chinese rge, which maintains a strict censorship over the net and last year had a long pulse against the multinational Google for the dnse that this one made of freedom of expression, Tianditu "provides information n Geographically accurate, complete and timely information to help people find places in China and plan their vacation. "
However, users of the new system is arming estn patience to find the destinations they want, and that return results Find it misplaced. "Tianditu the easier will make people's lives," he said on Thursday the head of the bur, Min Yiren, introducing the service. "Helping to locate automatic teller machines, banks and public baths with ease," he was quoted by state media.
However, if the Chinese user searches Haining, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the return map Herning, Denmark, while in the search for Taiyuan, Shanxi, Tianditu leads to Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, and introducing Lanzhou , the capital of Gansu, the search leads to Hiiraan, Somalia. In facilitating travel abroad, searching the distance between two Japanese cities, Tokyo and Kyoto, located 513 miles away, Tianditu indicate, interestingly, estn together and it takes "a minute "to travel from one to another.
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