{"id":2096,"date":"2010-11-06T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2010-11-06T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T00:50:29","slug":"nicaragua-blames-google-maps-for-accidental-invasion-of-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/nicaragua-blames-google-maps-for-accidental-invasion-of-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua Blames Google Maps for Accidental Invasion of Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5683446\/nicaragua-blames-google-maps-for-accidental-invasion-of-costa-rica\"><img src='http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/500x_nicaraguagooglemaps.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicaraguan troops accidentally invaded Costa Rica earlier this week. Now the Nicaraguan government is blaming Google maps: &#8220;There is a bug in Google, we sent a note to the company to rectify the map,&#8221; said the Deputy Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Nicaraguan troops are accused of crossing the (hotly disputed) border into Costa Rica and setting up camp for the night. But the commander says it was all a mistake caused by shoddy Google Maps. The commander told a Costa Rican newspaper:<\/p>\n<p>See the satellite photo on Google and there you see the border. In the last 3,000 meters the two sides are from Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>(Pardon the Google translation, which is about as accurate as Nicaraguans claim Google&#8217;s maps are.)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, the error was caused by incorrect border data from the State Department. In a blog post, Google says they&#8217;ve now corrected the error. Yikes. We could totally imagine Hitler using this excuse to invade Poland. [Search Engine Land via Tech Dirt.]<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5683446\/nicaragua-blames-google-maps-for-accidental-invasion-of-costa-rica\">Nicaragua Blames Google Maps for Accidental Invasion of Costa Rica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaraguan troops accidentally invaded Costa Rica earlier this week. Now the Nicaraguan government is blaming Google maps: &#8220;There is a bug in Google, we sent a note to the company to rectify the map,&#8221; said the Deputy Foreign Minister. Nicaraguan troops are accused of crossing the (hotly disputed) border into Costa Rica and setting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[410,411,412],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-costa-rica","tag-google-maps","tag-nicaragua"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}