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On the reverse side of the engraving is another map, Huayi tu. Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Its scope extended beyond China's borders with the expansion of the Chinese Empire under the Han dynasty.
One of its subsidiary companies, Beijing Mapabc Co. Ltd. [1] (www.mapabc.com), is a map website in China. [2] AutoNavi was acquired by Alibaba Group in 2014. [3] It offers its map services at Amap.com and as the Amap mobile app. It is known as Gaode in Chinese. AutoNavi provides mapping data of China and Taiwan for Apple Maps, which was ...
Maps of China . Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of China.
Mao Kun map, usually referred to in modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map ( traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin: Zhèng Hé hánghǎi tú ), is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi. [1] The book was compiled by Mao Yuanyi [ zh] in 1621 ...
Everyone loves Google Maps... except China. Google seems to have locked down the U.S. mapping market; Google Maps won the distinction of being App Store's No. 1 free app just seven hours after its ...
Tianditu ( Chinese: 天地图; also Map World [1] in logos) is China’s official free web mapping service. It was launched by China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) on 22 October 2010. Tianditu seeks to offer functions similar to those provided by Google mapping service. The creation of Tianditu is seen as part of the Chinese ...
Active. Baidu Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Baidu, offering satellite imagery, street maps, street view (which is called "Panorama" – zh:百度全景) and indoor view perspectives, [1] as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or with public transport.
Selden Map. The Selden Map of China ( Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 105) is an early 17th century map of East Asia formerly owned by the legal scholar and maritime theorist John Selden. It shows a system of navigational routes emanating from a point near the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Fujian Province, from which a principal route ...