Details on Live Maps in China

<p>I received a couple of questions yesterday from <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/brady/" target="_blank">Brady</a> at O'Reilly on the launch of Live Search Maps in China. Really well though out questions in fact! Instead of digging up answers, i sent them on to Vincent Tao who worked closely with the dev team in China that built Ditu (maps in Chinese). A couple of emails later and Brady had completed a great interview with Vincent including questions like - <ul> <li>Getting access to Chinese geo data is notoriously hard. Who are you getting the data from? Is it handled via a joint-venture? Where are your servers located? <li>Was the data allowed to leave China? What other restrictions were placed on the data and its use? <li>What are the issues surrounding showing images? Why would they be more concerned about their own population seeing them? Is http://maps.live.com blocked in China? <li>Will there be an API?</ul> <p>Vincent's responses to these and a bunch more questions can be read in the <strong><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/live_maps_in_ch.html" target="_blank">full interview on Radar</a></strong>. Who said bloggers can't be reporters :-)<img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+Details+on+Live+Maps+in+China&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=virtualearth.spaces.live.com&GT1=virtualearth">

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