Second island
Just ask Apple to add second Taiwan to the map with caption Chinese Taipei. After all, they did it for Japan. Problem solved. You're welcome.
Apple’s much-derided maps app which caused widespread user consternation when it effectively replaced Google Maps in the latest version of iOS, has come under fire yet again, but this time for being too accurate. The Taiwanese government has formally requested that Cupertino uses only low-res satellite images when detailing …
We already have one of these in the UK. A UK company that was selling vanity satellite prints your backgarden would sell you a pic of ours.
Google images is an easier way to find pics of the Taiwanese one:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?119827-Taiwanese-Military-Thread-Army-Navy-Air-Force-Marines-and-others&s=b02f86728f88ca0bb4ac16927cc3b822&p=5866946&viewfull=1#post5866946
as high resolution pictures can be bought, as Apple did, from sources on both sides of the former Iron Curtain.
I've seen pix of the armed White House roof floating around, as well as some high res of the UK which were subsequently knocked down in detail.
The Greeks still have laws that make it an offence for Foreigners to possess detailed maps of the country, introduced decades ago, yet there is a Greek publishing house selling pictures of most anything Hellenic. I located it by following the Copyright notice.
If anyone wants a high res picture of the Island of Kithnos, in the Milos island chain ....
Chances are, my dear Apple Fanboi, that since Google spent far more time working on their project rather then banging it out like trained monkeys that they had far more time to avoid pratfalls like this, either by letting government approach them or approaching the governments themselves.
So with all this secrecy around you have to wonder what's under the green blur on Google that affects a part of Russia close to the Bering Straits. You can see the blur here :
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x59f78f69ab39b585:0x5fc26c2ebfa92b76&q=66.26658,179.216423&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=PU51UMPeFsPg8APiqYDoBw
So then we look at Bing and discover that it is also hidden here too but someone with more expertise in Photoshop has been copying and pasting not with getting heavy with the blur tool.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?FORM=HDRSC4#JnE9LjY2JTI1NDAyMjY2NTglMjUyYzE3OSUyNTQwMjIxNjQyMyU3ZXNzdC4wJTdlcGcuMSZiYj01My4xMDc0Nzg1MjA4NTg0JTdlMTQuMzI1MDk3NTYwMjUlN2U0NC4yMjk3NjkwOTIxNiU3ZS05LjYyNTA5Nzc1MjI1
Have a look at the small lake closest to the pin and then look down and right you'll see where they've copied it from to do the cover up.
It's actually an old Russian missile complex but then that's hardly a secret anymore, and all what I've written above + pictures of the complex can be found here:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Russian_Bases_ICBM_Site_Chukotka.html