China also makes it illegal to make maps of the country without authorisation. Don't get caught working on OpenStreetMap there.
EDIT: grammar
You need to develop some subtlety to be taken seriously.
The troublesome part is coloring land not theirs as theirs in the map as well as labeling India's "hat" as disputed. There ate disputed lands, but not as large as implied.
And it seems that Taiwan is indeed same color as PRC. They really are crazy.
However, it's one thing to have some "official view" and another thing to brainwash citizens into thinking that these countries really are one, as they practically aren't. I was asking about the latter.
For example, some EU regulation classifies snails as fish to make their production eligible for fishing subsidies, but in biology textbooks they still remained molluscs.
"The Soviets made far more detailed maps of some parts of the world. They mapped all of Europe, nearly all of Asia, as well as large parts of North America and northern Africa at 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 scales, which show even more features and fine-grained topography."
I sincerely doubt they have any of the China GPS offsets.
> Worse, the maps for the masses were deliberately distorted with a special projection that introduced random variations. “The main goal was to crush the contents of maps so it would be impossible to recreate the real geography of a place from the map,” Postnikov tells me. Well-known landmarks like rivers and towns were depicted, but the coordinates, directions, and distances were all off, making them useless for navigation or military planning, should they fall into enemy hands. The cartographer who devised this devious scheme was awarded the State Prize by Stalin.
They only ended up in popular circulation after a quick retreat, fuckup and corruption that happened when the Soviet forced retreated from the Baltic states.
I've heard even US militaryused(uses?) some of those maps for parts of Africa or used then initially in Afghanistan. As nobody else has bothered much to go and cross reference and built detailed maps of those regions in that much detail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl...
> The grave accent and the diaeresis are the only diacritics native to Modern English... The use of both, however, is considered to be largely archaic. The diaeresis mark is sometimes used in English personal first and last names to indicate that two adjacent vowels should be pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong. Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë... it is far less commonly used in words such as coöperate and reënter except in a very few publications—notably The New Yorker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#English
> The grave accent, although not commonly applied to any English words, is sometimes used in poetry and song lyrics to indicate that a vowel usually silent is to be pronounced, in order to fit the rhythm or meter. Most often, it is applied to a word ending with -ed. For instance, the word looked is usually pronounced /ˈlʊkt/ as a single syllable, with the e silent; when written as lookèd, the e is pronounced: /ˈlʊk.ɨd/ look-ed). It can also be used in this capacity to distinguish certain pairs of identically spelled words like the past tense of learn, learned /ˈlɜrnd/, from the adjective learnèd /ˈlɜrn.ɨd/ (for example, "a very learnèd man").
Many things are forbidden by law, and many people do them anyway, because they know it is not /that/ forbidden. And not only in China, it is the same in France for example.
So, if you are working on OpenStreetMap in China: if your product is successful, be prepared to have to "drink tea" one day with authorities. They may tell you to use another map, or to comply with some rules, or to run your service from outside, etc.
Similarly, `to check the water meter` and `to receive a post package` mean the police to come to your door, as the police are thought to be disguised as staff from tap water company/package delivery company, in both cases, you are about to open the door.
China is not a place I'd like to test those boundaries.