Comments on: Geomapping Problems, Part 2: Google Earth

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:42:34 +0000

Japan doesn’t put the rocks on every map like Korea does. I’ll repeat one more time, Sunbin. I am not criticizing territorial claims. I AM MAKING FUN OF POLITICALLY CORRECT MAPS. Most countries do not bother to show maritime boundaries or non-inhabited islands, islets, and reefs on ORDINARY MAPS. This is getting repetitive, and I can’t make myself any clearer.

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:01:58 +0000

well….shouldn’t you include japan?
it claims the dokto rock as well.

and japan pioneered such creativity, see okinotoru rock

but you cannot really blame them, they were late to the party of island claiming. the european explorers got all the islands already.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:16:55 +0000

As you know, it isn’t the rocks but the fishing and oil and gas exploration rights that everyone is fighting over. Do not misunderstand my point. I’m not criticizing China for making territorial claims; I’m making fun of China for including all those tiny reefs, most of which are not controlled by China, on its national maps. No other country that I know of does this. Wait a minute. There is one other country – Korea, whose maps include two tiny specks known as Dokdo.

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:22:51 +0000

china does own a few islands, and taiwan has been the only real owner of spratly (the only habitable island with fresh water, the rest are reef, not islands).

so given china’s map includes taiwan, and that it view itself as the inheriter of ROC, why is this different?

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:22:23 +0000

Sunbin,

I don’t see what you were trying to prove. Ordinary maps of Japan do not mark its maritime claims. Virtually every map of China – from the ones sold in bookstores to maps in books to maps online – includes the Spratly Islands, most of which are occupied and claimed by countries other than China.

By: Ogle Earth

Ogle Earth — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:49:41 +0000

Afghanistan in Google Earth

Coming Anarchy, the blog, finds another interesting border-related feature in Google Earth: Afghanistan is the only country to have its provinces separated by white lines….

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:04 +0000

sonagi,

you asked for it, you got it
:D

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:23:56 +0000

only?

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:54:29 +0000

No, I mean this:

http://www.9654.com/m/china.htm

and this:

http://maps.51ditu.com/mapintime/maps/map_main.jsp

and this:

http://www.time.ac.cn/serve/sun_time/chinamap.htm

and this:

http://map.map2china.com/china/

I think you get the idea. There are martime boundary disputes in every ocean on earth. Only China makes a point of delineating its claim on every blinkin’ map.

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:27:32 +0000

or this one?

By: sun bin

sun bin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:23:12 +0000

sonagi, do you mean this map?
it certainly is a huge and greedy claim of the sea

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:43:11 +0000

Does Google show the entire maritime boundary of China including most of the South China sea?

By: nabetz

nabetz — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:05:19 +0000

Be still my beating heart! The Empire Restor’d!

By: J.Kende

J.Kende — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:00:14 +0000

Would be nice to see ‘China’ renamed ‘Mongolia’ also. Russia too.

By: nabetz

nabetz — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:14:18 +0000

So apparently the sea in the east is called the Sea of Japan and the sea in the west is called the East Sea. Hmmmm. By this, um, logic?, Mongolia should petition Google. How about “The Mongol Sea” after the Mongols’ two nearly successful raids of Japan across said body of water?

By: sun bin

sun bin — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:01:44 +0000

the seas:

it is not just google, rand mcnally and national geographic society as well

By: J.Kende

J.Kende — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:57:33 +0000

What is the Persian Gulf called?

Why, the ‘Sea of Japan’ of course.

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:40:59 +0000

What is the Persian Gulf called?