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Re:Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans by guywhocodes on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:18PM (#17771632)
Maps "works", there are essentially zero updates for many years. Walk down a street in Shanghai where business pop up/ shutdown/ move more often than annually on average, hardly a single name ever correlates with google maps.
Re:Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans by oh-kumudo on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:31PM (#17771684)
Worth notice is that, foreign companies are forbidden to collect its own map data in China, let alone something like Street View.
Re:Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans by guywhocodes on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:34PM (#17771688)
Individuals too, there seem to have been by Chinese standards extremely high fines issued related to OSM.