CHINA-MAP 2 LST

India and China have already held 13 rounds of talks to
resolve the boundary issue.
The Chinese official media, which carried the report,
said China launched its official online mapping service on
Thursday, as Google Inc has yet to apply for a Web mapping
licence in the country.
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM)
officially unveiled the free online map service which will
provide "comprehensive geological data", Xu Deming, director
of the SBSM, said.
Map World, the government-backed service, will "allow
users to fly over mountains and plains around the world and
search restaurants and traffic information across the country,
free of charge," he said.
Users can enter Map World directly through
www.tianditu.cn or www.chinaonmap.cn and search for two and
three-dimensional images across the world, without client
installations like Google Earth.
The service features images of satellite remote sensing
with a resolution of 500 metres but this is enhanced to 2.5
metres for the Chinese map and 0.6 metres for maps of more
than 300 Chinese cities.
"It took about two years to prepare the service with all
the satellite images taken from 2006 to 2010," Jiang Jie,
director of the database department of the National Geomatics
Centre under the SBSM, said. PTI