Entire buildings are being deleted from China's 'Street View' and no-one knows why

In September 2014, Jonathan Browning came across a Chinese mystery. Browning, a freelance photographer, was searching for locations on Shanghai's Huangpu River using Baidu Total View - the Chinese version of Google Street View. The Huangpu is Shanghai's main river, and large sections of its banks are lined with soot-stained factories and squat industrial compounds. As Browning looked, he saw that one of these structures - a cooling chimney next to a suspension bridge - had been crudely erased.
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