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srl on Oct 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: All Maps in China are Transformed

A map projection issue would show up in other places on the map, and would have been fixed by now.

mapster on Nov 2, 2011 [–]

Not true at all. Data can be pulled from multiple database sources, each with their own projection info., so if there are datum shifting issues, you can have some pieces not aligning to basemap while others do.

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