This is a great article, and it speaks to the need of countries to keep their national mapping organizations and for public officials who may not be map experts to first defer to their cartographers and surveyors and not Google. Google maps has its place, but is is not an accurate or reliable tool for 'official' lines and authoritative data and the fact that a country would deploy the troops based on a google map is troubling indeed.
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OPINION | February 28, 2012
Borderlines: The First Google Maps War
By FRANK JACOBS
How a simple online map almost caused a violent conflict in Central America.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/the-first-google-maps-war/?emc=eta1
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