In recent years, maps have been continuously applied to mobile Internet applications (APPs) due to their stereoscopic, intuitive and significant coupling effects. Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Notice on Regulating the Map Publishing and Use Behavior in Mobile Internet Applications to further standardize the map publishing and use behavior in APP.
The notice requires that APP sponsors engaged in Internet map services shall, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, go through map review procedures and ICP filing procedures with the competent departments of natural resources and telecommunications. If the map content changes or is updated, the map review procedure shall be performed again according to law.
The APP sponsor should implement the main responsibility of security, ensure that when the map is published and used, it accurately reflects China's territorial scope, administrative boundaries, important islands, etc., and marks the map review number; When quoting maps, the map source and review number shall be indicated; For registered users who use maps in violation of laws and regulations, warning, function restriction, account closing, record keeping and reporting measures shall be taken in accordance with the law. APP sponsors engaged in Internet map services should also continue to strengthen technical capacity building and strengthen the verification and proofreading of new content of Internet maps.
The notice also requires local natural resources authorities and telecommunications authorities to optimize map review, APP filing and government services, provide information services and other convenient measures to improve work efficiency. The two departments will regularly report relevant map review information and APP filing information, discuss the "problem map" clues found in the sorted APP, conduct in-depth investigation on key violation clues, predict possible problems, propose measures for trend problems, improve the ability to prevent "problem map" and resist risks, Urge the APP sponsor to implement safety management responsibilities and obligations.
For the APP that publishes and uses maps, there are "those that should be submitted for approval but have not been submitted for approval, those that use maps that have not been reviewed and approved according to law to provide services, or those that do not check and proofread the new contents of Internet maps, those that upload and mark the contents that are not allowed to be shown on maps according to the relevant national regulations, and those that do not clearly mark the review map number at the appropriate position of the map" For violations of laws and regulations, the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of telecommunications will take measures to deal with APP sponsors in accordance with the law, and create a standardized and healthy market environment for Internet map services. (Reporter Gu Yekai)
