| Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | asianxpat | 6/18/09 1:35 AM | If you look at any maps of mainland China, specifically for me the maps of Wuhan and Shanghai, and switch between the satellite and map views, you can see that the maps are offset to the satellite view. Using an iphone on the ground, it's obvious th |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | EmptySenti | 7/15/09 10:38 PM | I noticed that too but in Xiamen. Also, get an Android phone. hehe. |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | InspiresMe | 8/12/09 8:03 PM | This is for Beijing as well... in fact I think it is for all of China. Maybe it is some sort of way to keep us from knowing our exact locations? Mwahaha... |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | matthewsummerton | 8/27/09 10:49 PM | The map view is off, by about 200 meters to the east, where as the satelite view is correct. I have traveled from Xi'an to Tianjin and it has the same problem all the way between these two cities. Looking at the coments on this page it seems the whol |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dr_m | 9/9/09 10:45 PM | Despite what asianxpat says, this offset is indeed present on the web. However, it's only present in http://google.com - if you use http://google.cn then there is no offset. However, since the iPhone uses the .com info it renders the iPhone's GPS as useless in Bei |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | EmptySenti | 9/10/09 5:35 AM | Yeah, Google.cn 地图 also has a lot more info although its in Chinese. I would be nice if users had the option of viewing the maps with that Chinese layer or English along with the hybrid street/satellite view. But first please fix this problem with t |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dr_m | 9/10/09 6:25 AM | I think maybe google are aware of this. Normally in google maps if you check out the satellite image it shows the roads overlaid. This is indeed what happens for http://google.cn, BUT NOT for http://google.com. That indicates that they probably disabled their map |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dr_m | 9/22/09 11:28 PM | Actually, the http://google.cn maps are also incorrect - it appears that they shift the satellite image, which is the correct one! So GPS will still be screwed up even if the iPhone uses http://google.cn info. But it seems this is not just a google problem - it al |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | baudav | 9/26/09 5:40 AM | The satellite view is not overlay on the map in Beijing. And to the satellite is displaced orbits compared to GPS (and also on GoogleMaps Mobile for WM) While everything is overlay on 'http://maps.google.cn' but can not display in a language other than Chi |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | asianxpat | 9/27/09 4:41 AM | I've noticed that Google has now added English to their China maps, which is fantastic. The offset is still there, however. What surprises me is that there is no offset on Nokia maps in China. They get their information from Navteq (and their Chine |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | baudav | 9/27/09 8:54 AM | I found another China GoogleMaps (map in chinese :( but menu in english: go to http://ditu.google.com Satellite view overlay is OK |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | ricardo16 | 11/1/09 9:00 PM | Why does no one from google comment officially on this issue? |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | zayeshk | 12/2/09 6:07 AM | Same in Sri lanka too.:( |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | pilou74 | 12/26/09 10:01 PM | anyway to use the http://ditu.google.com by default on iPhone maps instead of http://maps.google.com ? At least, the http://ditu.google.com overlay is perfect. |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dr_m | 1/7/10 8:58 AM | HURRAY! IT'S FIXED! Well, at least in Beijing it's fixed to the extent that now GPS is aligned correctly with google maps on the iPhone. The satellite imagery is still offset, but (at least as far as I'm concerned) that's a minor issue. Luckily, I fo |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | baudav | 1/7/10 9:05 AM | not fixed in http://maps.google.com (without iphone!) |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | Laowei | 1/13/10 7:00 AM | Guysses and Guys, If you knew our paranoid brothers and sisters in China, especially the "governmental" ones, who need to protect their fellow citizens from the real world, this offset would just be another piece of the big puzzle. Like youtube... I |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dageshi | 2/8/10 8:19 PM | Well I have just run into this lovely problem, after taking some gpx recordings yesterday all my waypoints are in the middle of a lake on the map view but not on the satellite imagery. So does anyone have a fix for this? Is there some magic offset I |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | bigredlives | 2/16/10 3:37 AM | I am just adding my two cents in the hopes that at some point a member of google's staff will respond with some helpful info. I have been plotting points in google earth and then viewing the files in google maps. Same issue as stated above by a numbe |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dageshi | 2/16/10 4:10 AM | For what it's worth I think this is a deliberate problem put in place by google at the behest of the chinese authorities. I don't think it will be fixed until the chinese change their mind and I doubt that will be any time soon. The other explanation |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | asianxpat | 2/16/10 4:47 AM | This may be something to do with it (from a web article about Navteq): "... Altogether the data incorporates detailed mapping of 1,840 settlements, which fall into several administrative levels such as municipal, prefectural and county. It also incl |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dr_m | 2/16/10 5:39 AM | I tried a Chinese iPhone (in Chinese) in the store and it uses the local google maps (http://ditu.google.cn/), which has no offset problem between the maps and the satellite imagery (as you can see from the webpage). Last year the GPS on a British iP |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | oddbudman | 2/26/10 9:18 PM | I second the dissapointment that there is no official information from either Apple or Google regarding this problem on the iPhone. I purchased my phone in HongKong, and the GPS has never worked correctly in China- its always offset in Maps view. A |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | Brandon.J | 2/28/10 3:53 AM | I noticed that in Beijing, the satellite view and street view are aligned but in southern china, it's mis-aligned. I was in Changsha, and Shanghai a few days ago and noticed this annoying problem When I tried to use my iphone to figure out where I |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | hcchen_tw | 3/4/10 7:35 PM | "HTC Hero" is ok, it's also using Google map's data. I compared HTC Hero and Apple iPhone 3Gs myself, the map is same Google thing only the User Interface are different. So, it's the User Interface's job to fix the problem that HTC has done since man |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dancefire | 3/14/10 11:32 PM | Any google guys helping us? I didn't find any support here? There are a lot blogs, help request talking about the alignment, however, Google never responds. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=271f19f7f4c21a3c&hl=en http://www.goog |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | jfujita | 3/23/10 2:11 AM | I'm an iPhone developer trying to build an application that uses the map component of the iPhone OS SDK. I inquired with Apple developer support regarding this issue and this is what they had to say: Apple Developer Technical Support to me Please |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | oddbudman | 3/24/10 10:26 PM | Interesting to read the Apple response Justin, bit of a copout when you consider they use the maps component as a 'feature' to help sell the phone. Seems quite unfair to admit that its broken but not try to assist in getting it sorted. Especially w |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | banasar | 3/25/10 8:33 AM | Hi I am working in IBM india, Even google is not proper in serving for people. Especialy Asian countries. They are scared to show the white house in google earth they can show in and out of INDIAN Parliament. Another partiality is they are showing h |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | veisongv | 4/5/10 2:35 PM | What's more interesting! Is that on my nexus one using standard google maps application everything is ok! But when I try to cache them using TrackBuddy, for example, there is offset. Now I clearly understood that this in made on purpose. Why, I don't |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | jfujita | 4/5/10 2:44 PM | Has anyone heard anything official from Google with regards to this? As developers I think we're entitled to some sort of explanation so we can plan our projects accordingly. |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | pvgams | 4/15/10 8:00 PM | No offset with HTC Touch Pro 2 Google Maps application confirmed in Shenzhen Shanghai and Chengdu. I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 (Taiwan Company) bought from Hong Kong with inbuilt GPS, Windows Mobile and Google Maps application and using China Mobile d |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | yabbox | 5/4/10 11:37 PM | I have a HK bought iPhone and use English or Chinese language. With the Google Map app, my location in Tuanjiehu Beijing, is pretty much correctly pinned on the map. If I then click 'satellite' my location is offset by 200m NS and 500m EW. This is |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | aaron jensen | 5/19/10 11:03 PM | I am Tianjin, Northern China, 150km East of Beijing. The map and satellite views are way off here too. Many customers complain that the google map is wrong, however they are using the satellite view, which is has placed my business about 400m down th |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | alex fang | 7/2/10 11:16 PM | i found it just the problem of http://maps.google.com, if you switch to the http://ditu.google.com, maps view is exactly matching satellite views. i dont know why google didnt fix http://it.it must be http://google.com problem. it is puzzling! comon google.... |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | hustmobile | 7/24/10 2:30 AM | For iPhone,if you want to solve the China maps misalignment issue. Try ABCMaps applciation. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abcmaps/id379582726?mt=8 In China, the built-in iPhone Maps application is distorted and will show you a position that is 300 |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | hustmobile | 8/10/10 7:12 PM | ABCMaps is upgraded to version 1.30, English support added. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abcmaps/id379582726?mt=8 Find out where you are really in China. If you travel in China, sometimes you will be troubled by China maps offset. The ABCMaps appl |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | yty | 8/27/10 11:07 AM | Fot those who need to geotag their pictures taken in China, read this post http://www.ytraynard.fr/2010/08/decalage-a-la-carte-en-chine/ |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | earlmagnus | 4/28/11 12:31 PM | I'm on my way to China and I can't believe this has been a problem for YEARS with no response. Which which is accurate? The base map or the satellite map? |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | earlmagnus | 5/25/11 7:13 AM | For those wondering, as I did, which is accurate... the base map appears to be fine and the satellite images are shifted. I confirmed this on the ground in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an. |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | Laowei | 5/25/11 9:22 AM | @earlmagnus please revise your statement.... it´s not correct you have 24 hours. |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | dageshi | 5/25/11 9:39 AM | I took gps readings all over china including hangzhou, shanghai, beijing, yangshuo, xi'an last year in march in my experience the satellite imagery is correct and the generated map is not. An easy way to check is to go to google maps along the Hong K |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | Laowei | 5/25/11 5:18 PM | @dageshi that´s correct, also your assumption related to China´s "request". They are very paranoid here about people knowing where they are, what they want, and what goes on in the world out there.... |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | rmentat | 6/22/11 8:42 PM | Laowei, that makes no sense, because http://ditu.google.cn is alligned. I have found no explanation up to date, and I know the issue for more than one year... |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | rmentat | 6/22/11 8:46 PM | I forget to mention. Shame on Google about their silence. Google is screwing us in so many ways here in China :/ |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | pengkeu | 7/11/11 2:54 AM | I have the exact same problem, and it's inexcusable considering it would be such an easy fix. Indeed, http://ditu.google.cn is aligned properly at all zoom levels (including the TerraMetrics city-wide view) - white http://maps.google.com is out of alignment at all |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | JeffJ123 | 9/18/11 4:45 AM | I hate to burst the China vs.Google conspiracy theory, but my satellite image, hybrid overlay and maps all align perfectly on my Android phone. It is the HTC Inspire from AT&T in the USA. So I agree with the users who say it is not a hardware issue |
| Re: Mainland China maps and satellite images aren't aligned - Google can you fix this please? | JeffJ123 | 9/18/11 5:00 AM | As a follow up: I figured out the settings for google search were set to Chinese (again) and this is why I was not seeing the English or Pin Yin on http://ditu.google.com. If you guys are not seeing the pinyin, just be sure your google search is set to " |