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Chinese Google Maps with a SimCity Touch

posted by Satri on Thursday February 09, @10:33AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the do-we-really-need-remote-sensing-imagery? dept.

The Geospatial Semantic Web Blog offers an interesting web mapping site of Shanghai. From the blog: "The truth is that I found an interesting Shanghai city map called eDuShi (in English: e-City). In addition to its use of Ajax technique, it’s implemented to display SimCity-like map features."

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• Other beautiful maps

  (Score:1)

  by Satri (3) on Wednesday February 08, @01:33PM (#433)
  ( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @05:07PM )

  I found these (eternal thanks to planet geospatial [spatiallyadjusted.com]):
  
  - Great building rendering [ogleearth.com] in Google Earth.
  - Changes of look for Yahoo! Maps, make yourself a Pirate's map [everett-church.com]! Discussed here [mit.edu].
• edushi

  (Score:2, Informative)

  by Anonymous Voxel on Friday February 10, @08:02AM (#435)

  Edushi actually contains other cities besides Shanghai. Visit www.edushi.com instead of sh.edushi.com for the ability to reach more. www.vterrain.org and Geography v2.0 blogs have more information.