Tianditu, the ambitious Chinese version of Google Earth, is attracting ridicule from local surfers errors that collects geographic and place names, and not only outside of their geography, as the mysterious cities named "Unk" in Spain or the United Kingdom. Chinese forums, the Asian country's independent press and the global Internet are checking how China sees the world condemned to exile after Google in its territory.South of London, west of Madrid and in hundreds of locations throughout the global village is repeated "Unk" to many an abbreviation for "unknown", "unknown." Spanish territory resurrects the communist regime Franco nomenclature with terms such as "Seo de Urgel" or mistakenly called "Ovid" the capital of Asturias.
Although the general of the peninsula, Chinese technicians have removed the Basque Country, it emerges to bring the map, similar to what happens in Turkey, where one stroke sweeps Tuanditu the capital, Istanbul, in an overview, while the other nearer, the city appears again, but next to its old nomenclature, "Constantinople".
The errors are multiplied in Latin America, Europe and the rest of the planet, but also at home. Hainan, the island province of Southern China, is located in Japan, while China's Canton province (southern China) appears in South Korea. The famous Tiananmen Square, where in 1989 the Chinese military killed hundreds of peaceful students and emblematic of Beijing, is featured in a restaurant in Shanghai, the second largest city, and the Great Wall, four sections of which are located near Beijing , is south of the Yangtze River.
These and hundreds of other errors are delighting surfers more ironic, that last Thursday read about the opening of Tianditu that their system was "superior" to other digital maps such as Google, in the words of the State Bureau of Surveying China. According to the Chinese regime, which maintains a strict censorship over the net and last year had a long multi-pulse against Google by the defense that it was freedom of expression, Tianditu "provides geographic information accurate, complete and timely information to help people find places in China and plan their vacation.
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