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ghshephard on Sept 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6

I'm trying to figure out if you are serious about "Chinese Map Obfuscation Schemes". Your description of SA and DGPS is spot on, but I can't think of any reason that China would want to obfuscate their maps now that satellites have mapped their country.

sern on Sept 21, 2012 [–]

Paranoia, maybe? But yeah, it's rather pointless. Even more so since GPS vendors have access to the algorithm.

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