GPS co-ordinates in Baidu Maps, Google Maps

[rhew]

If you start Baidu Maps using the following link, the GPS co-ordinates are displayed next to the mouse, and by clicking on a point of interest, its GPS co-ordinates are transferred into a box on the screen that you can then easily copy and use, e.g. in Google Maps.

api.map.baidu.com/lbsapi/getpoint/index.html






This is similar in Google Maps to right-clicking on a point of interest, then selecting "What's Here?" to display the GPS co-ordinates just below the search box in the top left of the screen.

NB there is still some "scrambling" of GPS co-ordinates in China. There is a random offset of a couple hundred feet between the GPS co-ordinates in the Google satellite view versus its Map view. I typically record the co-ordinates from the street map view and make a mental conversion when switching to the satellite view, which is relatively easy since it superimposes the roads from the map view.

There is a way to "lock" the Google satellite and map views into the same GPS system, but it is in Chinese only, and I haven't explored it properly:

www.google.cn/maps/@35.86166,104.195397,4z

[lachinatown]

Thanks Rhew. Yes, the offset is bad. I usually just go by the roads, and turn off the label.

[tyuti1668]

Mar 7, 2015 1:41:45 GMT -5 lachinatown said:

...the offset is bad. I usually just go by the roads...

There's "street view" in map.baidu.com ... For example: douglaslam's home village j.map.baidu.com/0Y_d0

[lachinatown]

Hope more will come, including the villages. Maybe asking too much.

[douglaslam]

tyuti1668, the building in the middle is the village's central office. I have never been inside, I have no business there. The area used to be open space with a raised stage. Sixty or more years ago, propaganda teams would come with portable generator to present slide shows and films in open air. It was welcome because few of us had ever visited a cinema or watch a movie.

The precinct is better known as 戲孃地 (my understanding, it might be different in its real name )which means female thespian ground. There was a more sinister use of the stage and open space during the terrifying reign of Mao in the early 1950s. It was used in " struggle" sessions against shopkeepers, landlords and better off farmers.They were hauled to meetings day after day and night after night, denounced and humiliated in public. Some were made to kneel on broken glass in the hot sun. My grandmother was one such victim because grandfather bought farming land and fish pond.

Regular readers would remember my grandfather was a Head Tax payer in early 20th. century Canada. What little money he saved for retirement in China was bled dry by Mao when his henchmen extorted money to free grandmother. The Chinese did not deserve that monster Mao.

I only had glimpses of the cruelty that went on there because my elders would not allow me to go. What I did see, stays with me.