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China maps seem to have coordinates displaced by some meters #18

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Jmaguerre opened this issue Mar 19, 2018 · 2 comments
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China maps seem to have coordinates displaced by some meters #18

Jmaguerre opened this issue Mar 19, 2018 · 2 comments

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@Jmaguerre
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Version 8.1.2.1

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If I open the same coordinates in google maps they show the center of the place correctly. It does not happen with other countries.
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Zverik commented Mar 19, 2018

That is an issue with the chinese local map projection. Maps in Baidu and Google are offset, and OSM has the correct locations for any point of the world. See this article for example.

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Thanks for the clarification

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