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End of Orienteering Mapping in China?

Chinese authorithies announced that mapping in China can be done only with special permission. Reason, danger to national security: Foreigners who illegally survey, gather and publish geographical information on China will be severely punished.Most orienteering maps in China had been mapped by foreigners (mostly Czechs). This could mean end to…
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these trips as orienteering mapping was kept low profile and obtaining permission in Chinese bureaucracy could prove to be tricky. More in AOL news.

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