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bahman2000

i don't think it's unique to China

take a look at this POI on 4sq: http://4sq.com/rArZMj

It starts with a street view. If you zoom in a little, turns out the bar is out in the water! When you switch to Satellite view, the bar is where it is supposed to be, on the shore.

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I don't see the anomaly you're talking about. At any rate, it was probably just that -- an anomaly in the mapping software -- which is completely different from the government-mandated misinformation that is the subject of this story.

Isn't that just an inaccuracy in how the shore is modeled in the map data?

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