Chongqing, China, Shapingba District: Mapping Exercise

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Google Maps in Chinese

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Google Maps in Chinese

A Chinese friend randomly sent me her GPS coordinates. She was on a highway, deep within Sichuan province, just outside of Chongqing. Because Chongqing, with a population greater than the whole population of Canada, 30.1M people (2015), is so huge, this meant that she was just on the outskirts of the city. Mapping her GPS coordinates, between Google and Baidu maps, was, as usual, confusing. Here is the exercise.

The original coordinates sent to me were 29.656019,106.444153, or 29°39’21.7″N 106°26’39.0″E, 7PX8MC4V+CM. 沙坪坝区 Shapingba My Windows PC returned this URL: https://www.google.com/maps/place/29°39’21.7″N+106°26’39.0″E/@29.650779,106.3959376,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d29.656019!4d106.444153?hl=zh-CN

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Google Maps in Chinese

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Google Maps in Chinese

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Baidu Maps

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区 Baidu Maps

For China, Baidu maps has much more rich detail, landmarks, pretty much everything. Did you notice there is a river on Google Maps that is missing in Baidu Maps? Who is correct?

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Google Maps in Chinese

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Google Maps in Chinese

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Google Maps in English

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Google Maps in English

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Baidu Maps 百度地图

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, closeup, Baidu Maps 百度地图

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, GPS 29.656019,106.444153 Baidu Maps

Chongqing, China, 重庆,Shapingba District, 沙坪坝区, GPS 29.656019,106.444153 Baidu Maps

In this case the Google Maps GPS and the Baidu Maps GPS locations are very close.

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