China Map using Baidu Maps
Since Google Maps isn’t in China, but the country has a greatly varied and interesting landscape, from megacities to countrysides, from deserts to jungles, and from mountains to prairies, it’s a shame it’s entirely excluded from GeoGuessr.
However, Baidu Maps, based in China, has a street view function that’s covered most of China, from the plateaus to Tibet to the snowy wilderness of Heilongjiang. Baidu Maps also has an API that could help implementing GeoGuessr on a new platform.
However, Baidu Maps, based in China, has a street view function that’s covered most of China, from the plateaus to Tibet to the snowy wilderness of Heilongjiang. Baidu Maps also has an API that could help implementing GeoGuessr on a new platform.
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Problem with Chinese services is that it's very slow to load data from outside of China, which will impact timed games a lot.
On another side you have Yandex that provides data for Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and more Russia and it's not that slow so if there is some API that could be another possibility.
That being said, having China on here properly would be really cool.
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There is no progress in regards to this.
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As for Yandex another attempt was made and it works well. A script was done to inject Yandex maps in GeoGuessr: https://openuserjs.org/scripts/kommu/Geoguessr_Yandex_Plugin (it's a bit complicated to run as it needs an API key: https://shorturl.at/bhzOX). This could be implemented into the game.
I played one round and they are all movable. I wonder whether there will be an official map of China like that of India(no official street view, but a lot of tourist spots).