[spitx]

>"I'm talking about those of us who live in China (you know, the place with 1.3+ billion people and the second-largest economy in the world)."

This claim is preposterous. There are 1.241 billion in India and Hindi is not even supported in the ios6.

http://i.cubeupload.com/kTSpGM.jpg

As others have pointed out, the granularity on Google Maps is not one bit poorer.

http://i.cubeupload.com/3Dj8kk.jpg

Google seems to be using AutoNavi as well, for this region.

http://i.cubeupload.com/EqvYMX.jpg

I don't know what your're talking about.

Make an effort to be elaborate.

As the late Richard Holbrooke used to say: "Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around."

[liotier]

  > There are 1.241 billion in India and
  > Hindi is not even supported in the ios6.

Only one third of the people of India speak Hindi. That's still 400 million people, but India's highly multilingual environment makes localization choices more complicated.

[codeka]

Google also lets you see the Chinese names (at least, in the web interface of Maps, you just uncheck "English" in the settings drop-down).