Google India maps shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh in Chinese language and the map shows Arunachal’s southern boundary with Assam and northern boundary with China in broken lines, while the state’s eastern and western boundaries with Bhutan and Myanmar are shown in continuous white lines.
Google India Map Controversy - Arunachal Pradesh in Chinese Language
While the political circuit has started their speculative game, what’s really surprising in that Google has not yet rectified/apologized for the change.
‘The Chinese know how to time their statements ahead of a bilateral meeting. This map surfaced just when the two countries were to discuss the border dispute. Had Google changed the names of Chinese locations, Beijing would have summoned Google officials. India, too, should deal with it firmly,’ – BJP MP
What’s your take on this issue? Time India goes strict with such mistakes (Imagine what China would have done to Google!)? Every time something like this happens, Google organizes ‘Internet awareness’ campaigns (with govt. officials) in order to appease them and the matter is resolved ‘amicably’.
What’s your opinion?
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Earlier Google controversies:
- Google India says it is not liable for Blogger content..
- Orkut user faces legal case over anti Shiv Sena community
- PIL asking Google to remove India from Google Earth
- Google India in a legal case over a blogger’s post
- Maharashtra Government wants to censor Google Earth
- Techie held for posting derogatory messages against Sonia Gandhi on Orkut
Earlier this week, as part of a routine update to Google Earth, we published new data for the Arunachal Pradesh region that changed the depiction of certain place names in the product. The change was a result of a mistake in our processing of new map data .We are in the process of reverting the data to its previous state, and expect the change to be visible in the product shortly. We would like to clarify that this issue did not impact our depiction of international borders.
Google spokesperson
I am from Srinagar and you can see very clear that 99% of Kashmiri Hate India.. we dont like indian Govt. we Love to go with Pakistan … people are very happy in Pakistani Kashmir area… there is no army but in Indian kashmir there is army beating every where… we hate army !!! search on you tube what kashmir says against india…
If you hate India so much why the heck are you in Kashmir. For that matter Pakistan itself was India.
Kashmir was a predominant Hindu Kingdom. Check in the same youtube how Muslims tortured the Hindus and drove them away from Kashmir.
You guys never read history and never understand anything.
Why is it not possible that Pak cannot have a good elected government? Why is it always a elected government dismantled by a Army General? Why is it all the generals so far a highly corrupt? Why is it that all the generals so far are hanged or ran out of the country?
All this happens becos of intolerance towards anything. Open up your eyes and mind and start appreciating the place where you live.
speak only for yourself…
it has ngot nothing to do with 99% of kashmiris
you dont like india. i dont want you in india you can leave india , its your choice…. go and settle in pakistan or wherever you want
its only becoz of stupid people like you that kashmir is a problem zone..
i have never heard my frns from kashmir or jammu speak like that, they love india. half of kashmir is already in pakistan…just becoz of people like you
You may be from srinagar or may not be.. Thats doesn’t matter but all of you guys are “Bibhisan”. Do you ever think , that all of you use simple toothpaste to motor cycle/car, every products is made from India…India was divided according to religion. And Kashmir was a hindu rastrya. So if you donot like India , can goto Lahore…
Ithink there you get a good atmosphere..
It was not our intention to get involved in an international border dispute. However, you must be aware that we are becoming a powerful corporation whose influence will soon eclipse the power of most national governments. At that time we will be “facilitating” the resolution global conflicts like these in the interest of the global community. Also, we strongly refute any suggestion that the ICBMs that we are developing will be pointed towards Baidu offices in China.
Google Press Team.
Google admits ‘mistake’ of wrong depiction of AP’s areas.
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/644935/ArunachalPradesh/1/20/1
New Delhi, Aug 8 Search engine Google today admitted its”mistake”of wrong depiction of certain areas of Arunachal Pradesh as parts of China and said its maps would be rectified shortly.
“Earlier, this week, as part of routine update to Google earth, we published new data for the Arunachal Pradesh region that changed the depiction of certain place names in the product. The change was a result of a mistake in our processing of new map data,”a spokesperson for the search giant said in a statement.
The spokesperson was reacting after a media report which highlighted that Google map showed certain areas of Arunachal Pradesh as parts of China. The media report had raised suspicion about the search engine being hacked by Chinese considering that Beijing has been laying claim over entire Arunachal Pradesh, which India rejects.
“We are in the process of reverting the data to its previous state and expect the change to be visible in the product shortly,”the spokesperson said.
“We would like to clarify that this issue did not impact our depiction of international borders,”the statement said.
Google Earth is a service of Google that lets users to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings. (Source: PTI)
Google Ditu (???? lit. “Google Maps”) was released to the public on February 9, 2007, and replaced the old Google Bendi (???? lit. “Google Local”). This is the Chinese localized version of Google Maps and Google Local services.
There are some differences in frontier alignments between Google Ditu and Google Maps. On Google Maps, sections of the Chinese border with India and Pakistan are shown with dotted lines, indicating areas or frontiers in dispute. However, Google Ditu shows the Chinese frontier strictly according to Chinese claims with no dotted lines indicating the border with India and Pakistan. For example, the area now administered by India called Arunachal Pradesh (referred to as “South Tibet” by China) is shown inside the Chinese frontier by Google Ditu, with Indian highways ending abruptly at the Chinese claim line. Google Ditu also shows Taiwan and the South China Sea Islands as part of China. As of May 2009, Google Ditu’s street map coverage of Taiwan also omits major state organs, such as the Presidential Palace, the five Yuans, and the Supreme Court.
There are some differences between ditu.google.cn and ditu.google.com. For example, the former does not feature My Maps. On the other hand, while the former displays virtually all text in Chinese, the latter displays most text (user-selectable real text as well as those on map) in English. Worthy of note is the oddity that 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 is not known.
We expect Google to be very professional in this regard. Advisable, it is to keep your hands off all such international boundaries for ever… if you want to remain in business without raking up unnecessary issues to which anyways you have not control.
cheers,
Marvin
LOL at Politicians!
Guys, I think we have more serious issues to discuss rather than fighting over who should take Google to court.
Everyone knows politicians need to earn their daily bread too, so let them rake up the controversy…that’s their job.
But the rest of us need to get back to work. Why are we so annoyed at technical glitches?
Google Maps is not a political source of knowledge.
ARN, dont we all trust wikipedia for it’s information? Google maps/earth for info?
There are better things to fight for..but these are also important areas to look at..
Had it been China, they would have got Eric Schmidt to fly to China to apologize for this.
Dont be a lazy ass that says ‘chalta hai’ in order to dodge responsibility.
Dude, if you really trust wikipedia for serious information, you’ve got a lot of research to catch up on!
Its true that we often look to the net for ‘instant’ information, but in the age of anyone-anonymous-can-say-or-do-anything-anywhere information, its not wise to debate over the validity of information over sources that can disappear overnight.
(If Google for some reason decides to shut down Maps for good one fine day, can anyone still claim right to the information on it?)
And about the “Had it been China” part, dude seriously!
Its amazing how people tie politics into everything.
It is not about China verses India here. Its about a company that goofed up – and if there’s any Google employee reading this – yes, you guys messed up!
But in the meanwhile, like I said, we have work to do:
Farmers to feed, terrorists to catch and diseases to eliminate.
Let’s not get worked up about technical gliches.
p.s. Oh, and this isn’t dodging responsibility; its about not over-reacting to a normal this-could-happen-to-anyone scenario.
Don’t you see the timing factor?
Well, just because we have other things to solve, it doesn’t mean we do not take care of our borders.
Google is an authority that people trust (esp. the not so tech savvy ones)…
And no, this can’t happen to anyone scenario. What if tomm. google shows kashmir as part of Pakistan? You will just sit by and ‘solve world hunger’?
.. sometimes, ppl need to raise voice against authority who are taking things in an easy way.
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No, I honestly DON’T see the timing factor. What does Google have to do with India-China bilateral talks anyway?
Or are you suggesting that there was a (Chinese?) conspiracy behind this to cause data corruption at this “timely event”.
Hmm, maybe there’s also a secret political wing at Google?
What if Yahoo! suddenly develops a technical glich and displays News in Hebrew instead of Hindi?
Would that then count as an assault against all Indian languages?
I guess the biggest problem in our country is that we’re overly sensitive, and tend to get worked up about every tiny issue.
Next thing you know, we’d have riots on the streets burning buses and breaking stores…now who benefits from any of this?
Oh, and btw, the “non-techy” lot couldn’t be bothered with what’s on Google-Maps. We don’t see any chai-wallas or bank employees complaining…its only us tech-talk people who have made the internet our second home who have to raise voice to everything on it.
Cheers!
Whoa, chinese language. And no one is complaining! What if tomorrow Microsoft decides to show some image in Bengali, India would be so devastated. Oh yeah those Google idiots are also showing Indian map in English language, when we have got rid of English slavery after so much effort.
God oh god, some one please kill all translators, the travesty to humanity.
Its against Indian culture to translate our words. Lets all convert to Islam and issue a fatwa against them.
Pls keep religion out of this, thx.
Its too much of a volatile topic to be useful for any humor.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/174205/google_placates_india_china_with_different_map_versions.html
Google considers Tibet which was annexed by china as part of chinese territory and its playing games with india.
kashmir :part of china ..
arunachal :part of china in chinese maps.
Arunachal has been part of indian territory for last 1000 years
I think it’s time indian government should take Action against Google.
well I am from Srinagar and you can see very clear that 99% of Kashmiri Hate India.. we dont like indian Govt. we Love to go with Pakistan … people are very happy in Pakistani Kashmir area… there is no army but in Indian kashmir there is army beating every where… we hate army !!! search on you tube what kashmir says against india ….
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Being a Arunachalee i felt that if suppose china own the Arunachal Pradesh by any means, the result will be same as Tibet.Chinese are not interested on us, they need only land and how can they empowered there country.They just one to show the world that they are King of Asia. But what about Indian Government, they are already expense lots of money for Development of the Arunachal Pradesh, But our Ministers instead of Patriotism, they are just full there pockets from Central,so where is the development? be frank even I don’t know where is our future,either in India being a useless MAN or in China being as a SLAVE
i am an arunachalee and iam proud to b an indian.two of my classmates(arunachalees) told that they want arunachal to b a part of china and when i asked why then they replied”lovly bihar”.wat do u think about it?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :E