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It'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 are. Seems like Baidu maps have fixed their map+satellite overlay now, but when I visited, they had the same problem.

http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...

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why are you interested the sensitive region of other country? why area 51 is blocked from GPS? why can't countries outside U.S check how many Massacre weapons in this country? why this domestic country arise the most the wars in last 60 years?

The thing is China has a pretty funny idea of what constitutes "sensitive". Such as free speech and human rights.

is this related GPS? But ask yourself first, does it make sense ? do you know the entire story but just Plagiarized from you media?

When the Chinese government is frivolous with blocking access to websites and services, it's not a huge leap to worry they may be frivolous in denying access to other services they provide. Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Maybe we'll bump down the resolution in that area to make protests more difficult.

Not saying they're going to do it, but just the smallest uncertainty means you'd rather trust one of the 3 other competitors in the area.

edit: I wonder if putting keywords on this page will get them denied access to these comments 六四事件天安門廣場抗議天安門事件

Haha, it looks like putting in those words maybe did block the Chinese.

Nothing frightens me more than a society with no freedom of speech, except for one that gleefully has none.

area 51 isn't blocked from gps or google maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=area+51 and https://maps.google.com/maps?q=nellis%20afb

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