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Saturday
Nov062010

Google Maps border becomes part of international dispute

(CNN) -- The accuracy of Google Maps has been pulled into a debate about the border between two Central American countries.

A Nicaraguan general cited Google's version of the border map as an after-the-fact justification of a reported raid of a disputed area between that country and Costa Rica.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/05/nicaragua.raid.google.maps/index.html

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