China Cracks Down on Mapmaking

The Chinese government is going after foreign mapmakers who “illegally survey, gather and publish geographical information on China,” the Xinhua News Agency is reporting (AOL News; Irish Examiner; Shanghai Daily; People’s Daily). It’s not clear to me whether this is solely directed at surveyers gathering information without permission, or at extraterritorial map publishers as well. (Can you use Google Earth in China?) Via MapHist.

Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 9:12 AM
Categories: Censorship & Security

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Yes, you can use Google Maps in China. :-)

Gareth | 08/30/2006 at 9:35 AM | #

This is rather troubling as it very much reminds me of how Russia in the late 1990’s would arrest businesspeople as a way of retaliating against whatever country with which it was having a beef. Russia would arrest these people claiming they were photographing or mapping out military areas (when they were in reality just doing due diligence on a factory purchase or whatever) and deport them. Very bad for business and I hope we will not be seeing this in China.

China Law Blog | 08/30/2006 at 9:29 PM | #

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