Sporadic Shanghai weblogger Billy Qiu wrote a nice entry recently on <a title="HitHat Blog by Billy Qiu" href="http://blog.hithat.com/archives/shanghai_related/2005_10_20_shanghai_online_map_services.htm">Shanghai Online Map Services</a> with some map sites that I hadn't wandered across.  This should be fun to check out:

<quote>Now more and more online service provider in China followed the google's good example "Google Maps" by providing china city maps services online.</quote>

--I was thinking today... one of my unlinkable, friends-only LJ friends wrote a post with a long list of things he misses about his home in the USA.  For me, the first time I was in China for a longer period, I was finally able to put into perspective everything I had learned about being American in my 10 years living in the States in a way I had been unable to while at "home". 

--And Fons drops a gem: <a href="http://www.chinaherald.net/2005/10/law-not-that-legal-voip-services_24.html" title="China Herald: law - The not-that-legal VOIP services "><q>I estimate that about 50 percent of Shanghai is illegal</q></a>.