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Google Maps view, same zoom level shows the difference in infrastructure as seen "from space" between USA and China (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if you can glean much from this without looking into exactly how Google Maps displays specific types of roads in each country. If you drew a map of every road in both countries they might look more similar.

[–] mkkhan@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I work in GIS and based on some exploration, it seems that zoom level shows only roads tagged as freeways.

So in this case it literally is just a straight up win over US infrastructure.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

are "highways" considered freeways by Google Maps?