Amap is my favorite navigation app in China
🇨🇳 Amap (in Chinese 高德地圖 Gaode Map) is my favorite navigation app in China
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong, when we told the staff they said "yes Google Maps isn't used in China", it is so useless in China that even the city grid and roads are positioned wrongly on top of the satellite map, so it doesn't seem to be maintained at all by Google
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
It also has more features like cute 3d maps and showing the live status of the stoplight like many other apps in China do too
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