[SDI-AsiaPacific] incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese map vendors fined

[Kate Lance]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070721/article_324256.htm
Incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese map vendors fined
Several hotel chains operating in Shanghai face fines for providing guests with improper maps. Officials from the Shanghai Mapping and Survey Management Office say the maps only show part of China, not the entire country.
The officials said they have found such maps at six hotel chains in Shanghai, but they have only provided information on two of the companies.
The Wuyi Road outlet of the discount chain Home Inn gave its guests maps that only showed one third of China, leaving out the vast western part of the country.
According to a hotel receptionist who declined to be identified, the maps simply show the part of China where Home Inn has hotels.
That is illegal, according to officials because the design of the map suggests it is showing the whole country. However, if it was labelled to indicate that it only showed eastern China, and it included Taiwan Province, it would have been all right.
The law states that any person or company found publishing maps that show only part of the country can be fined up to 10,000 yuan (US$1,315).
Similar maps were found at several outlets of the Jinjiang Inn. Those maps didn't depict several Chinese islands in the South China Sea.
[Souce: ASMMAG]


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