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et maps in china are leased from autonavi 126 russian street maps are leased from geocentre consulting and tele atlas data for north korea is sourced from the companion project google map maker street map overlays in some areas may not match up precisely with the corresponding satellite images the street data may be entirely erroneous or simply out of date the biggest challenge is the currency of data the authenticity of data said google earth representative brian mcclendon as a result in march 2008 google added a feature to edit the locations of houses and businesses 127 128 restrictions have been placed on google maps through the apparent censoring of locations deemed potential security threats in some cases the area of redaction is for specific buildings but in other cases such as washington d c 129 the restriction is to use outdated imagery google maps api edit google maps api now called google maps platform hosts about 17 different apis which are themed under the following categories maps places and routes 130 after the success of reverse engineered mashups such as chicagocrime org and housingmaps com google launched the google maps api in june 2005 131 to allow developers to integrate google maps into their websites it was a free service that did not require an api key until june 2018 changes went into effect on july 16 when it was announced that an api key linked to a google cloud account with billing enabled would be required to access the api 132 the api currently update does not contain ads but google states in their terms of use that they reserve the right to display ads in the future 133 by using the google maps api it is possible to embed google maps into an external website onto which site specific data can be overlaid 134 although initially only a javascript api the maps api was expanded to include an api for adobe flash applications but this has been deprecated a service for retrieving static map images and web services for performing geocoding generating driving directions and obtaining elevation profiles over 1 000 000 135 web sites use the google maps api making it the most heavily used web application development api 136 in september 2011 google announced it would deprecate the google maps api for flash 137 the google maps api was free for commercial use provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access and was not generating more than 25 000 map accesses a day 138 139 sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the google maps api for business 140 as of june 21 2018 google increased the prices of the maps api and requires a billing profile 141 google maps in china edit due to restrictions on geographic data in china google maps must partner with a chinese digital map provider in order to legally show chinese map data since 2006 this partner has been autonavi 126 within china the state council mandates that all maps of china use the gcj 02 coordinate system which is offset from the wgs 84 system used in most of the world google cn maps formerly google ditu uses the gcj 02 system for both its street maps 142 and satellite imagery 143 google com maps also uses gcj 02 data for the street map but uses wgs 84 coordinates for satellite imagery 144 causing the so called china gps shift problem frontier alignments also present some differences between google cn maps and google com maps on the latter sections of the chinese border with india and pakistan are shown with dotted lines indicating areas or frontiers in dispute however google cn shows the chinese frontier strictly according to chinese claims with no dotted lines indicating the border with india and pakistan for example the south tibet region claimed by china but administered by india as a large part of arunachal pradesh is shown inside the chinese frontier by google cn with indian highways ending abruptly at the chinese claim line google cn also shows taiwan and the south china sea islands as part of china google ditu s street map coverage of taiwan no longer omits major state organs such as the presidential palace the five yuans and the supreme court 145 additional citation s needed google cn maps does not provide my maps on the other hand while google cn displays virtually all text in chinese google com maps displays most text user selectable real text as well as those on map in english citation needed this behavior of displaying english text is not consistent but intermittent sometimes it is in english sometimes it is in chinese the criteria for choosing which language is displayed are not known publicly citation needed criticism and controversies edit incorrect location naming edit there are cases where google maps had added out of date neighborhood monikers thus in los angeles the name brooklyn heights was revived from its 1870s usage 146 and silver lake heights from its 1920s usage 147 or mistakenly relabeled areas in detroit the neighborhood fiskhorn became fishkorn 148 because many companies utilize google maps data these previously obscure or incorrect names then gain traction the names are often used by realtors hotels food delivery sites dating sites and news organizations google has said it created its maps from third party data public sources satellites and users but many names used have not been connected to any official record 146 148 according to a former google maps employee who was not authorized to speak publicly users can submit changes to google maps but some submissions are ruled upon by people with little local knowledge of a place such as contractors in india critics maintain that names likes bococa for the area in brooklyn between boerum hill cobble hill and carroll gardens are just plain puzzling or simply made up 148 some names used by google have been traced to non professionally made maps with typographical errors that survived on google maps 148 potential misuse edit see also google street view privacy concerns and list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data in 2005 the australian nuclear science and technology organisation ansto complained about the potential for terrorists to use the satellite images in planning attacks with specific reference to the lucas heights nuclear reactor however the australian federal government did not support the organization s concern at the time of the ansto complaint google had colored over some areas for security mostly in the u s such as the rooftop of the white house and several other washington d c buildings 149 150 151 in october 2010 nicaraguan military commander edén pastora stationed nicaraguan troops on the isla calero in the delta of the san juan river justifying his action on the border delineation given by google maps google has since updated its data which it found to be incorrect 152 on january 27 2014 documents leaked by edward snowden revealed that the nsa and the gchq intercepted google maps queries made on smartphones and used them to locate the users making these queries one leaked document dating to 2008 stated that i t effectively means that anyone using google maps on a smartphone is working in support of a gchq system 153 in may 2015 searches on google maps for offensive racial epithets for african americans pointed the user to the white house google apologized for the incident 154 155 in december 2015 3 japanese netizens were charged with vandalism after they were found to have added an unrelated law firm s name as well as indecent names to locations such as nuclear test site to the atomic bomb dome and izumo satya to the izumo taisha 156 157 in february 2020 the artist simon weckert 158 used 99 cell phones to fake a google maps traffic jam 159 in september 2024 several schools in taiwan and hong kong were altered to incorrect labels such as psychiatric hospitals or prisons initially it was believed to be the result of hacker attacks however police later revealed that local students had carried out the prank google quickly corrected the mislabeled entries education officials in taiwan and hong kong expressed concern over the incident 160 161 162 misdirection incidents edit argentina edit in may 2025 a brazilian tourist driving from perito moreno to el calafate walked 25 kilometres 16 mi on foot during a snowstorm after google maps directed him to an unpaved section of santa cruz s 29 highway where his car got stranded he was rescued by local police after walking for five hours in freezing weather 163 australia edit in august 2023 a woman driving from alice springs to the harts range racecourse was stranded in the central australian desert for a night after following directions provided by google maps 164 165 she later discovered that google maps was providing directions for the actual harts range instead of the rodeo google said it was looking into the naming of the two locations and consulting with local and authoritative sources to solve the issue 164 in february 2024 two german tourists were stranded for a week after google maps directed them to follow a dirt track through oyala thumotang national park and their vehicle became trapped in mud 166 167 queensland parks and wildlife service ranger roger james said people should not trust google maps when they re travelling in remote regions of queensland and they need to follow the signs use official maps or other navigational devices 166 india edit google maps has been linked to several misdirection incidents in india in 2024 24 in 2024 three men from uttar pradesh died after their car fell from an under construction bridge they were using google maps for driving which misdirected them and the car fell into the ramganga river 168 169 the bridge had no warning signs or barricades in place at the time of the incident engineers from the state s road department and a google maps official were identified in a police complaint on charges related to the case 170 north america edit in june 2019 google maps provided nearly 100 colorado drivers an alternative route that led to a dirt road after a crash occurred on peña boulevard the road had been turned to mud by rain resulting in nearly 100 vehicles being trapped 171 165 google said in a statement while we always work to provide the best directions issues can arise due to unforeseen circumstances such as weather we encourage all drivers to follow local laws stay attentive and use their best judgment while driving 171 in september 2023 google was sued by a north carolina resident who alleged that google maps had directed her husband over the snow creek bridge in hickory the year prior resulting in him drowning according to the lawsuit multiple people had notified google about the state of the bridge which collapsed in 2013 but google had not updated the route information and continued to direct users over the bridge 172 173 165 at the time of the man s death the barriers placed to block access to the bridge had been vandalized 174 175 in november 2023 a hiker was rescued by helicopter on the backside of mount fromme in vancouver north shore rescue stated on its facebook page that the hiker had followed a non existent hiking trail on google maps this was also the second hiker in two months to require rescuing after following the same trail the fake trail has since been removed from the app 176 177 also in november 2023 google apologized after users were directed through desert roads after parts of interstate 15 were closed due to a dust storm 178 drivers became stranded after following the suggested detour route which was a bumpy dirt trail 179 following the incident google stated that google maps would no longer route drivers traveling between las vegas and barstow down through those roads 178 russia edit in december 2020 sergey ustinov a motorist teenager froze to death when his toyota chaser s radiator malfunctioned on an abandoned section of the kolyma highway between kyubeme and agayakan close to the coldest permanent inhabited place on earth his passenger vladislav istomin was found alive but with serious frostbite after the pair initially tried to make a fire of tires but failed while the temperature outside hit 50 c google maps was found accountable for redirecting the pair to the abandoned road part of a 200 km shorter route than the normal one between yakutsk and magadan the start and end point of the two 180 labelling disputes edit google maps has been criticized for not labeling palestine as a country 181 182 when users search for palestine the name is not visible as a labeled entity on the map while its neighboring states are shown in 2016 in response to an accusation that it deleted palestine from the maps the company explained that they have never labelled palestine on their maps and also that a temporary bug had removed the labels for the west bank and the gaza strip google also claimed the reason they do not label palestine is due to the territory and its boundaries still being disputed however critics have pointed out that google maps shows the western sahara despite that territory also being part of a long running dispute and argued that google demonstrates an inconsistent approach to disputed territories 183 181 despite google s explanation backlash continued over the omission and in 2020 the controversy led to a change org petition to prompt google to add palestine to google maps which has over 2 1 million signatures 184 in february 2025 google said that it would change all parks labelled state parks in canada to provincial parks this issue predated the trump administration but gained attention after trump stated that he would like canada to become the 51st state the state park listing was criticized by canadians including british columbia environment minister tamara davidson 185 186 naming disputes edit in 2012 bbc news reported that google was facing potential legal action from iran for its lack of a naming label for the persian gulf on google maps the body of water was not labelled on the map iran said google would see serious damages if the gulf was not named on the map 187 the gulf is the subject of a naming dispute since 2016 google maps has displayed both persian gulf and arabian gulf on the body of water and shows either arabian or persian gulf to local users depending on geolocation and language settings 188 in february 2025 as a response to donald trump s executive order 14172 the gulf of mexico was relabeled to gulf of america for us users and gulf of mexico gulf of america elsewhere except for mexico itself where it remained the gulf of mexico the decision received criticism with mexican president claudia sheinbaum asking google to reconsider its decision 189 and stating that her government would not rule out filing a civil lawsuit against google 190 google subsequently disabled user reviews of the gulf after the name change occurred bbc news reported that google appears to have deleted some negative reviews left in the wake of its name change 191 192 in...
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