It is also interesting to see what the United Nations does to India on their world map [1]
[1] http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/world.pdf J&K is shown as a breakaway portion of India and Pakistan. Arunachal Pradesh is shown as a separate country all together. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, H. S. Sudhira <hs.sudh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am sure most of you are aware and keeping track of this. Survey of > India / DST takes a step on digital maps representing the country's > boundary, files a complaint against Google! It will be interesting to keep > a tab on this. More troubles to Google, as this comes after the Mapathon > event! > > Here is the official word on this from their Facebook post > <https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=894090357277177&id=277739112245641&fref=nf> > : > It is observed that M/s Google Map is wrongly depicting external > boundaries of India on maps hosted by them on different domains, namely > http://www.google.cn/maps/@25.7377892,88.726647,4z and > https://www.google.com/maps/@25.1367452,80.1073483,4z , which are not > equivalent to Government of India authentication. > The correct official boundaries of India has been shown at > http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/fil…/Correct_India_Map_1.pdf > <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyofindia.gov.in%2Ffiles%2FCorrect_India_Map_1.pdf&h=WAQGS5vQh&enc=AZNiarC7YaARtZIxN5apmQDyhCrncT0hQ421xHVoYOMJyElRbJHsUeVdEovbwRg31QZYnJ6Nlxdp-UCqmSLCX3ld8SB53waywyaF2gItaG0TdekJc3MYlcWOAa79FSP9FFg_KjEMmyIev-1WTmU3DOW9nPxYwx-2JM6D7QOUkFDVxw> > > In this regard, on the instructions of Department of Science & Technology, > Survey of India has officially filled a FIR with SHO, PS Dalanwala, > Dehradun on 12-12-2014 at 18:00 hrs requesting them to take appropriate > legal action against M/s Google Maps for displaying incorrect map of India. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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