China under the name World Map with their own Internet mapping service launched. The free service of the Chinese National Survey Office, use is different than Google Earth no client needs is his to offer, a comprehensive geological data and it allows the user to around the world to fly, it says on the website of the China Internet Information Center.

This service provides the alternative to virtual globes like Google Earth. Indeed, but that is applicable to the territory of China only, for most regions of the world appear in World Map as a sparsely populated open space. The satellite service provides images with a resolution of 500 meters. It can be up to 2.5 meters for Chinese cards and up to meters for cards of more than 300 Chinese cities increased 0.6 to be is the official description of the new service. For a flight around the world so far as the material does not, Germany has something like a continuous forest landscape without significant civilization. Anyone tried the green landscape to zoom in further, at some point no longer show gets, but only see a white surface.

The new Chinese map service seems to be a further indication of the differences between Google and the Chinese government to be. The Internet service provider had announced in early 2010, two of its offer services in China set. After hacking on Google and other U.S. companies in March, began to Google requests automatically to the site in Hong Kong to pass on. Then Chinese authorities had indicated that you Google the necessary license in China will not renew for an activity. Although the license was eventually renewed, but the relationship between Google and the Chinese authorities remained strained.