![]() The lines that Google draws on maps have no government’s But popularity does not bestow authority. Over the past decade, Google Earth and Google Maps have become the online cartographic resources of reference. News headlines flashed around the world, announcing the arrival of a new type of border conflict: the Google Maps War. The Costa Ricans retaliated by dispatching about 70 police officers Persisted, maintaining 50 soldiers on the Isla Portillos, along the southern bank of the San Juan’s main channel. The latter relented: acceding to the demand of Carlos Roversi, Costa Rica’s deputy foreign minister, it adjusted the online border. The digital atlas had indeed placed the eastern end of the border between the countries to the south of the generally accepted line, providing Nicaragua with a territorial gain of a few square miles. For proof, he said, just look at Google Maps. Territory by claiming that, contrary to the customary borderline, he wasn’t trespassing at all. ![]() ![]() 3 of that year, Edén Pastora, the Nicaraguan official tasked with dredging the Rio San Juan, justified his country’s incursion into neighboring Costa Rica’s ![]() ![]() Borderlines explores the global map, one line at a time.ĭid Google Maps almost cause a war in 2010? On Nov. ![]()
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