Google apologises for triggering invasion

AnonoBoy

http://www.thejournal.ie/google-apologises-for-triggering-invasion-2010-11/

TheJournal.ie wrote:

GOOGLE HAS APOLOGISED after a mistake in one of its maps triggered a Central American invasion.

The erroneous Google Map image showed more territory belonging to Nicaragua than actually exists, according to US State Department maps of the area.

A Nicaraguan commander used the flawed map as justification for last week’s incursion into Costa Rica.

Google said that an error of up to 2.7km was marked on the map, but it was working to revise its data: “The US Department of State has provided a corrected version and we are now working to update our maps”.

The statement from Google continued:

It is our goal to provide the most accurate, up-to-date maps possible. Maps are created using a variety of data sources, and there are inevitably going to be errors in that data. We work hard to correct any errors as soon as we discover them.

The issue has been corrected on the Google Maps site.

The NY Daily News reports that Nicaraguan commander Eden Pastora used the map to justify an incursion into Costa Rica last week, and that he told La Nacion:

See the satellite photo on Google, and here you see the frontier. In the last 3,000 meters both sides are Nicaraguan. From there to El Castillo the border itself is the right bank, clearly.

InsideCostaRica reported yesterday that Nicaragua had appealed to Google not to change the map.

Costa Rica, meanwhile, has asked the Organisation of American States (OAS) to investigate the alleged invasion into its territory, according to AFP. The border has been a hotly-contested issue between the two countries since the 19th century.

Testing the water it sounds like to me.

"Now let's see who else we can get to invade a country!"

biko

While they're at it they can add a river to Galway

policarp

Yah! They also had a very bad photo of my uncle getting out of his car.
Only he recognised his house and his car, he would never have known it was himself...

policarp

biko wrote: »

While they're at it they can add a river to Galway

Is it not back there yet after all the recent rain???

Mint Sauce

I'm telling ya's. Skynet!

Brendog

Whut?!?!

http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m560/brennanst/google.jpg

orourkeda

2.7km you could run that in 20 minutes

liah

You'd think they'd cross-check an official map before actually invading a country? Or for that matter, they should've noticed it was misreported data..

This story makes so little sense.

FatherLen

type "google is going" into google and look at the dropdown bar of suggestions.

mike65

type google in google and just see what happens, oh yes!

Brendog

mike65 wrote: »

type google in google and just see what happens, oh yes!

sure while I'm at it why don't I divide by zero and kill us all!

SugarHigh

orourkeda wrote: »

2.7km you could run that in 20 minutes

I'd bloody hope so.

allanb49

I think we have a boardsie by this name :S

google is going to mercy kill orkut

DonJose

Costa Rica don't have an army!!!

abelard

This is just a precursor to what the people of Meath will do when they realise that Google Maps denies that Meath has a coastline......

citizen_p

google maps isnt that great, heres a pretty simple mistake

a river on a map where there is now a large lake (hit satillite)


also google is just a rough guide in my opinion, i seen areas where the satilite image is a completly off where the road is etc.....