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May 3, 2024

Every map of China is wrong. And this is intentional… | by Anastasia Bizyayeva | Medium

Now we know what’s happening with our map — satellite images in China differ from the GPS coordinates that we have for locations within the country because of a random offset (random direction and random amount) applied by an obfuscation algorithm. This answers the question of ‘what’ is happening, but next on our agenda is answering ‘why’ this approach is taken by the Chinese government.