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Old Apr 25, 2023 | 12:07 pm
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Originally Posted by gudugan
The reason why Google Maps is off (50-500m) is because Chinese GPS coordinates are intentionally obfuscated unless the map creator has specific authorization from the government. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restri..._data_in_China
The converter (or at least, one that's good enough to use for navigation) is open source, so they could easily fix the problem if they wanted to. And I believe OpenStreetMap and some others have data gathered in WGS-84 format in the first place and don't need the transformations.
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