Kotaku and Gizmodo point to a 3D-map of Hong Kong recently:

“While Google Maps is pretty useful at the moment - especially Street View - we can’t help but look at this Chinese map of Hong Kong and wish that, instead of “Street View”, we could instead have “SimCity View”.
This map is real (though not provided by Google), and accurate, and can be used to plot your course or find landmarks as easily as you can on Google Maps…”

Only that it isn’t accurate… I mean, just take a look at Central; what about the pier-area around the IFC2? I’ve been passing this neighborhood myself quite often on my way to catch a ferry — shouldn’t there be an additional road and a walkway? Instead there is a bunch of greenery to be seen, which does not exist to that extend. And what about the area on the backside of HSBC? The 3D-view shows a large park-area there — so where’s Queen’s Road, or Lower and Upper Albert Road and Robinson Road? Must have been overgrown since last time I’ve been there. Oh, and if you scroll towards Kowloon-side, then you’ll find that the map just stops at Boundary Street. I guess it means that this is a map of Hong Kong within its boundaries of 1898.

This map is a nice, cute and useless gimmick. I prefer the homegrown centamap.com any day. By the way, the map’s provider Edoshi is a Mainland-based company specializing in such 3D-views of a variety of large cities like Hanzhou.