And you thought Google street view was a security problem...

You could not make this up............Nicaragua has used an error on Google's internet maps system to justify an invasion of Costa Rica. 

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Blaming the US state department for providing bad data, Charlie Hale, a Google Geo Policy Analyst, wrote in a blog post: "We are now working to update our maps."
Blaming the US state department for providing bad data, Charlie Hale, a Google Geo Policy Analyst, wrote in a blog post: "We are now working to update our maps."
Maine Winters
Some engineers from the U.S.G.S. surveyed some property and found that in a area, the New Hampshire and Maine border must be changed. They stopped to inform a farmer that he was no longer in Maine, but in New Hampshire.
After a long pause, he grunted and said, "That's good. I couldn't take another one of those Maine winters."
A Google spokesman said that while it strives to make its maps accurate, "by no means should they be used as a reference to decide military actions between two countries".
I CAN ONLY
_____________________________________________Blaming the US state department for providing bad data, Charlie Hale, a Google Geo Policy Analyst, wrote in a blog post: "We are now working to update our maps."
I'm amazed Google has become that influential! A little scary when you think about it.
I'm amazed Google has become that influential! A little scary when you think about it.
That's what happens when your name becomes a verb.