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Jian Shuo Wang
Personal blog · home.wangjianshuo.compoliticsculture
Jian Shuo Wang writes Wangjianshuo's Blog, a personal blog at home.wangjianshuo.com about politics and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “All Maps in China are Transformed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN as a source that China's government requires maps to be altered. Commenters discuss the effects on Google Maps and on domestic Chinese GPS devices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Life of Jian Shuo Wang in Shanghai
Most-linked posts?
- All Maps in China are Transformed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-30
What Hacker News says?
It's required by the chinese government http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...
Comment linking /archives/20081109_all_maps_in_china_are_transformed.htm
on “Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6”Submitted All Maps in China are Transformed as a story · 175 points
HN discussionIt's true, and at least it was still in effect last time I was in Beijing. Google Maps even disable their map+satellite view overlay above a certain zoom level to mask this (only in China - cross the border to free Hong Kong and it works), but you can still see it if you turn on Traffic view. Domestic GPS devices have a reverse transform to mask the effect, but the result is you can never be sure exactly where you a…
Comment linking /archives/20081109_all_maps_in_china_are_transformed.htm
on “China's Beidou GPS-substitute opens to public in Asia”Submitted Ask HN: How to tell whether a query is a subset of another as a story · 1 points
HN discussion