Is there a usable online map site for China?

Is there a usable online map site for China?

11/8/2016 12:05:05 PM

My New Answer

I’m back in China for the third time and I discovered a new map site.

ditu.amap.com

ditu amap

I find it fast, smooth, VPN-free, and very good at finding hostels compared to the other maps that I could get working this time. It does seem to only be in Chinese though.

My Old Answer

I don’t think these work anymore, certainly not without VPN.

Almost. There exist a pair of undocumented / unpublicized versions of Google Maps.

  • ditu.google.com is an English-language version of Google Maps which has correctly aligned aerial imagery and road networks. But "My Location" is still incorrectly aligned.
  • ditu.google.cn is a Chinese-language version of the same, but with some differences.

"dìtú" means "map" in Chinese (地圖 / 地图) .

In fact both sites have differences to regular Google Maps sites. Some of these differences are detailed in the Wikipedia article on Google Maps.

Various posts on forums and blogs speculate Google had to comply with various Chinese laws or regulations to be allowed to use the correct data. I speculate that their not being totally happy about complying to such rules might be why Google doesn’t seem to say anything about these sites.

11/1/2013 7:54:36 AM

If you have Google Chrome, it recognizes different languages, and prompts you to translate them. So these would be good:

Sogou Map – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Baidu Map – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau.

Mapbar – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and a general map of Taiwan short of details.

MapABC – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and a general map of Taiwan short of details.

51ditu – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau.

U2MAP – covers Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and a general map of Taiwan short of details.

City8 – the world’s first project introducing street view service earlier than Google Street View, covering 41 cities of Mainland China, as of October 2009.

EDUSHI – provides 2.5D virtual images for 48 cities of Mainland China and Hong Kong, as of October 2009.

DUSHIQUAN – provides 2.5D virtual images for 26 cities of Mainland China, as of October 2009.

Map Taiwan – mainly for Taiwan

Hope this helped

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