3/9 Read businessweek online issue on 'china.net'. Lots of stories on
internet activities in china. Anybody thinking of moving back to
china or taiwan to start companies? I've been thinking about going
back to TW to start an online gaming company. DSL penetration is
pretty high.
\_ let me know if you do please! -brain
\_ in the same vein (is there a latin term for that expression?),
does anyone have any Indian tech connections? I have an idea for
outsourcing (not HiTech related) to India but don't have the
connections.
\_ mail me. - rory
\_ "Online gaming company", you mean developing online games, or what?
\_ I think he means online sex chat
\_ No wonder DSL penetration is so important!
\_ I would think penetration not important for online sex.
\_ He said "gaming" which is gambling, not "game".
\_ An ex-boss went there 2 years ago. He has a company, website, etc,
but I don't think he has final product or beta customer 1.
\_ I wanna make the China version of Yahoo Maps / Mapquest.
Anyone here has any experience? eg. Worked at Navtech?
We can start with like Beijing and move on from there.
\_ Do people there really have a need for a service like that?
\_ I am sure there is. Hwy system and car ownership are
exploding. Biggest problem is probably that the road
system is changing and expanding too fast.
\_ Instead of driving direction from pt A to pt B, you can provide
transit directions from pt A to pt B. --- yuen
\_ In Taiwan right now, and talked to friends from the mainland
regards to LBS service. The main issue is that, unlike USA,
which essentially gave out GIS map of entire country for free
(TIGER db), in both mainland China and Taiwan, GIS Maps has to be
purchased. I am less familiar with what is going on in the
mainland, but in Taiwan, first, the government actually holds
copyright on these maps, secondly, the government impose a very
restrictive license on how the map can be used, and charge a
very handsome sum for "value-added redistribution."
Second issue is less difficult. There is simply no good Chinese
parser out there to tokenize addresses.
In taiwan, life get even more complicated because maps are
controlled by several different government agencies.
The main obsticle is that Chinese people on both strait treat
map as some sort of military secret, and very reluctant to
release them to civilian use.
If you are interested in this kind of things, email me, as I
am in the process of getting street maps of Taipei to play
with (which going to cost me $150 USD just for personal use).
-kngharv
\_ You mean in Taiwan tourists can't buy somthing like "Map of
Taipei" at a bookstore for a few bucks?
\_ I don't get the tokenize address part. Just let the
user enter the address as seperate fields. Take my
aunt's address (using commie romanization):
tai2 bei3 (taipei city), xin1 dian4 (subdivision), zhong1
zheng4 lu4 (road), wu3 hao4 (number)
If they write it all together, sure, but if it's entered
in seperate fields or with a delimiter, I don't see
what's the difficulty. |
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