Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
by xxpor on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:47PM
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It's a similar law to what's discussed here. The justification is protection from NK.
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Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
by ncpa-cpl on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:37PM
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Could it be a licensing issue?
Naver Maps has really good street view and very accurate maps in SK.
Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
by AYBABTME on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:14AM
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My reading of the situation is that it's a convenient "national security issue" which happens to favor SK companies and insulate them from having to compete head-to-head with Google Maps.
Turn-by-turn navigation also doesn't work using Google Maps. Meanwhile SK navigation apps like Naver Maps or Kakao Maps have really poor navigation features if you compare to what you'd have using Google Maps on an American road.
The end result is that consumers suffer, since artificial market protection leads to an inferior product and no real need to improve and compete by players on the local market.