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Google uses GCJ-02 data for the street map, but does not shift the satellite imagery layer, which continues to use WGS-84 coordinates, [45] with the benefit that WGS-84 positions can still be overlaid correctly on the satellite image (but not the street map). Google Earth also uses WGS-84 to display the satellite imagery. [46]
From September 2006 until August 2016, the office of Google China was a ten-floor building in Kejian Building in the Tsinghua Science Park. In March 2009, China blocked access to Google's YouTube site due to footage showing Chinese security forces beating Tibetans; [11] access to other Google online services was being denied to users arbitrarily.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
“Ugh,” you say to the wind, “UGH.” On a good day you press the button and flick through a couple of settings before access is granted. Irritating, yes, but not infuriatingly so.
Everyone loves Google Maps... except China. Google seems to have locked down the U.S. mapping market; Google Maps won the distinction of being App Store's No. 1 free app just seven hours after its ...
Over the next few days, the company said it will end the automatic redirect entirely and send all Google.cn users to the mainland China site, with the link to google.hk a click away.
It offers its map services at Amap.com and as the Amap mobile app. It is known as Gaode in Chinese. AutoNavi provides mapping data of China and Taiwan for Apple Maps, which was introduced with iOS 6. [5] This is currently the only method of viewing their map in English, and is only available when the Apple device is located within China.
State Highway 87 (SH 87) runs for 249.4 miles (401.4 km) between Galveston, Texas (at a terminus shared with Interstate 45 and Spur 342) to U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 84 in Timpson, Texas. Highway 87 has a notable stretch between Sea Rim State Park and High Island, Texas that has been washed out repeatedly over the decades and has been ...