Getting Yahoo Maps to work in China
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:53 am
Hi
I'm living in Shanghai, China and good maps in English or pingying (ie not chinese characters) are really hard to find. Google maps is not good here and the Chinese maps (e.g. Baidu) only use Chinese characters. However there is one map that is the best - it is the Yahoo map I can access on my browser. For example:
https://maps.yahoo.com/place/?lat=31.21 ... 2C%20china
It has accurate street numbers and pingying addresses.
However I can't access this map on the Offline Maps app. What I get when loading any of the Yahoo maps (Street,Satellite,Hybrid) is the message, "Service Unavailable - code:503". This happens if I use a VPN running or not.
Is there a way I can access the same maps that are used on maps.yahoo.com for Shanghai?
Thank you,
Paul
I'm living in Shanghai, China and good maps in English or pingying (ie not chinese characters) are really hard to find. Google maps is not good here and the Chinese maps (e.g. Baidu) only use Chinese characters. However there is one map that is the best - it is the Yahoo map I can access on my browser. For example:
https://maps.yahoo.com/place/?lat=31.21 ... 2C%20china
It has accurate street numbers and pingying addresses.
However I can't access this map on the Offline Maps app. What I get when loading any of the Yahoo maps (Street,Satellite,Hybrid) is the message, "Service Unavailable - code:503". This happens if I use a VPN running or not.
Is there a way I can access the same maps that are used on maps.yahoo.com for Shanghai?
Thank you,
Paul