How Google Maps Led to An Accidental Invasion

latterly a Nicaraguan military commander invaded a Costa Rican territory and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua ’s . He went through all this trouble because of an error on Google Maps .

A Nicaraguan military commander recently obtrude upon Costa Rican territorial dominion , and order troop to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua ’s . Was this the oeuvre of a brash commander , move rapscallion on his superiors ? A new policy of Nicaraguan imperialism ? Neither . The incident was make by an wrongdoing in Google Maps .

SearchEngineLandtranslates the detail from La Nación , Costa Rica ’s largest newspaper , which reported that air force officer Eden Pastora blame the penetration on a misleading border on Google Maps that was off by some 3000 meters .

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La Nación point to a disparity between the borders on Bing and Google . We ’ve foreground the area in motion :

A Google interpreter was unsure what caused the chromosome mapping mistake . Whatever the response , this could play into Bing ’s next merchandising scheme : Bing , the hunting railway locomotive that does n’t get international dispute .

You may well charge the Nicaraguan military for using Google Maps — which , for all its utility in casual life history , is a relatively imprecise tool for prescribed example near borders . But it ’s been little more than three year since the British Navy had the same problem , straying into Persian waters by accident ( Iran being far more grave than Costa Rica , which does n’t even have a full - sentence war machine ) andblaming its military - grade GPS equipmentfor the error . A month before that , the Swiss militaryblundered into Lichtensteinon a training exercise — because , they said , it was coloured . That , at least , was one molding crossing Google Maps might have prevented .

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