Google shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh (India) in Chinese Language
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Wait... even weirder, I switched to the terrain view, and it added the German town names (map view doesn't have them). Beautiful area, in any case:
If I've understood correctly, names do not actually come from Google, but from map data providers, so the culprit in this is case is a map data provider.
It is. Map makers are in a hard place. There are parts of Kashmir that are in Pakistan but Indian maps show them as part of India. Which never made sense to me. The indian government goes after anyone whose maps show it differently. (fwiw I am Indian)
Recently Google Earth stepped up the coverage of darfur genocide. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/google-steps-up-its-dar...
Now with these two diagonally opposite cases, it is to be seen how an increasingly popular and influential tech giant treads the fine line between fact and diplomacy, setting examples for others in the process.
恭喜您上傳了第一部 YouTube 影片！
Babelfish tells me that it means "Congratulated you to upload the first YouTube movie!" which I suppose is straightforward enough, but I would have preferred to hear it in a language that doesn't baffle me quite as much.
The global version of Google Maps shows the border as a dashed line, according to actual territorial possession.
The Chinese version, Google Ditu, shows the border as an unbroken line according to the Chinese claim. Taiwan is also shown as part of mainland China.