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Subject: Fwd: incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese mapvendors fined
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:52:17 -0700
From: Rixanne Wehren <[log in to unmask]>
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count your freedom blessings!
rixanne
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> http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070721/article_324256.htm
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> Incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese map vendors fined
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> Several hotel chains operating in Shanghai face fines for
> providing guests with improper maps. Officials from the Shanghai
> Mapping and Survey Management Office say the maps only show part
> of China, not the entire country.
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> The officials said they have found such maps at six hotel chains
> in Shanghai, but they have only provided information on two of the
> companies.
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> The Wuyi Road outlet of the discount chain Home Inn gave its
> guests maps that only showed one third of China, leaving out the
> vast western part of the country.
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> According to a hotel receptionist who declined to be identified,
> the maps simply show the part of China where Home Inn has hotels.
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> That is illegal, according to officials because the design of the
> map suggests it is showing the whole country. However, if it was
> labelled to indicate that it only showed eastern China, and it
> included Taiwan Province, it would have been all right.
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> The law states that any person or company found publishing maps
> that show only part of the country can be fined up to 10,000 yuan
> (US$1,315).
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> Similar maps were found at several outlets of the Jinjiang Inn.
> Those maps didn't depict several Chinese islands in the South
> China Sea.
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> [Souce: ASMMAG]
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Rixanne Wehren
GeoGraphics / Coast GIS Lab
Custom Cartography and GIS Projects
27401 Albion Ridge Road, Albion CA 95410
707-937-2709 * Mon-Fri 8-5
Coastwalk- Ca. Coastal Trail mapping coordinator
www.californiacoastaltrail.info
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