Wargames, maar dan anders

Stel je wil gaan baggeren, maar je weet niet precies waar de landsgrenzen lopen, dan Google je dat toch even...

In Midden-Amerika heeft dit bijna tot oorlog geleid tussen Nicaragua en Costa Rica. The Guardian schreef hier over:

The dispute began when Nicaragua began dredging around Calero – a move condemned by Costa Rica, which said the dredging was causing environmental damage.
Nicaragua stationed troops in the area, while its neighbour has sent around 70 police officers to a nearby town. Costa Rica abolished its military in 1948, but its police force is well armed.
The dispute took an unusual twist when the Nicaraguan official in charge of the dredging project told a Costa Rican newspaper he used Google Maps to decide where the work should be done.

Google heeft ondertussen op zijn Lat Long Blog aangegeven dat de grens zoals is weergegeven in Google Maps niet correct is, en dat dit zo snel mogelijk opgelost wordt. Tegelijkertijd doen ze de geschiedenis van het conflict wat meer uit de doeken.

Unlike the image above of our current depiction, the corrected version will follow the east bank of the San Juan River going northward, nearly to the Caribbean. It will then turn eastward and follow the southern shoreline of a large lagoon, Laguna los Portillos. This depiction follows the demarcation laid out in the First Award of Arbitration of 1897, which affirmed the Cañas-Jerez Treaty of 1858.

Dus de Googlization of everything leidt tot (bijna) oorlog tussen twee landen...

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Gelezen: Peter Oltshoorn - De macht van Google