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I must admit I do wonder what the Chinese think systems like Quickbird and Ikonos do when they're over China! These commercial satellites provide 1 metre resolution images, with georeferencing good to a few metres. The SRTM provided more or less glabal digital elevation models at 30m resolution. Why do they think a map is a military secret any more, as far as standard topographic maps go? Of course, toponymy is a political football - I don't suppose they like seeing Taiwan or Thibet labelled as if they were separate countries. Paul >>> [log in to unmask] 30 August 2006 17:06 >>> One comment just received from 'MapHist' subscriber. [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 30 August 2006 4:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: [Maphist] China and maps Very ironic when you realize that a huge amount of the detail work necessary to create GIS systems all over the world is outsourced to China. Original Message: ----------------- From: [log in to unmask] Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:28:03 -0400 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [Maphist] China and maps News item on aol.co.uk at present, China is concerned about non Chinese making maps of its territory, threat to 'national security'. Ooops, I just looked at Beijing on Google Earth, here come the Chinese security forces. (Maybe not as bad as Iran, where in 1998 the tour guide took us to an ancient fort next to a modern army base. We could look but most felt uncomfortable taking photos of the ruins as we were being stared at by quite a few soldiers from next door) Hillary Shaw, Southampton -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.info Maphist mailing list [log in to unmask] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system.