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Old Aug 5, 2013 | 8:04 pm
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jeffcarp
 
Join Date: May 2003
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I don't think Google owns the Hong Kong maps. I think the maps in that area are licensed from AutoNavi and MapKing. You can look at the copyright notice in the lower right corner when you zoom into a place and get a pretty good handle on whether you are looking at 3rd party licensed data or Google's own data.

Originally Posted by FliesCasually
I'm planning a trip to Hong Kong and am cranky about the base map accuracy. Victoria Peak is on a street downtown. Mt Davis is in the bay. In Macau, the first listing for Ruin's of St Paul's is about 800 meters off. And a bunch of roads from the mainland are shown in the water of Macau's inner harbor.

I suspect they've been importing cool new info and reviews from new sources, but I wish they'd checked their work more carefully .... I'm puzzled and amused that "Report a problem" is disabled for Hong Kong.
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