Nicaragua ‘Accidentally’ Invades Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps
- Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:25pm by
Meredith Jessup
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The Nicaraguan government is blaming Google for almost sparking an international incident earlier this week.
After Nicaraguan troops accidentally crossed over into Costa Rican territory — a hotly contested border region — the government’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Carlos Roverssi, said the Google software had a “bug” and the Central American country “sent a note to the company to rectify the map.”
The local Nicaraguan paper reports (translated from Spanish):
Roverssi complained that the map in the direction www.googlemaps.com, the border between the two countries is different from official documents.
For his part, Ambassador of Nicaragua to the Organization of American States (OAS), Dennis Moncada, said yesterday in Washington on the subject: “Look this is a technical element mapping that can be confusing. Yo refiero no opinar sobre esa situación de los mapas porque pueden tender a confundir”. I refer not to comment on the situation of the maps because they tend to confuse.”
In the end, it turns out Google’s error was actually caused by incorrect border data supplied by the U.S. State Department. (h/t Gawker)
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Comments (91)
Buttercup
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:05pmGee, and all those people from the US on House Hunters International (HGTV) moving to Costa Rica because it’s beautiful and safe. I hope they didn’t waste all their money. Pshaw! Who needs borders when they have such nice views of the beach? I wonder if they gave up their citizenship?
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:13pmThere is no perfect place on earth. But as far as Costa Rica goes, it is like anywhere else that is safe, the people are nice, the weather is beautiful, and the government leaves you alone. It is what you make it. I dare you to take a trip there. It will make you think twice about what you need in life. Unless of course, you are the big city dwelling materialistic type. And nothing wrong with that either, if it makes you happy.
Report Post »claymoremacm
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:39pmI sailed around the world and I certainly would not rely on google for my position ever.
Report Post »magdala
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:10pmGoogle maps are used by terrorists to size up military installations and other potential targets.
Wonder who else has wondered into enemy territory using Google maps?
Report Post »trukmek
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:34pmCan’t wait for google to draw the congressional redistricting borders
Report Post »That should be fun..
poverty.sucks
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:10pmPOTUS 2010 Asia Trip Spawns One World Government Redistricting Process.
Report Post »Tyrone
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:10pmAfter several hundred bombs were dropped and a 4 hour long artillery barrage the damage was assessed at $22.00 in American money.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 5:34amWait…you forgot to take off the twenty percent for the deflated dollar
Report Post »Boojer56
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:09pmSo next Venezeula will invade the rest of south america and blame Google Maps. Could you imagine what Hitler ( a Socialist) would have done had Google maps been in existence?
Report Post »petey
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:01pmAccording to my friend from Costa Rica,it has no military.I said”no Army.Navy et al?Nope,that’s why they can afford a good health care system.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:13pmI’m sure you will be heading right on down the next time you have a serious medical concern.
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:19pmI lived in CR for about a year, and as a conservative leaning libertarian Tea Partier I have to say that anyone who thinks Costa Rica is a typical third world banana republic is wrong and should hop on a plane and take a peaceful vacation there. I felt just a safe or safer there than I do here in the US. The people are extremely friendly, the water is safe to drink, and the prices are relatively cheap. And again, it’s very safe. And get this, you have more freedom down there than in the US. The government there actually stays out of your life and treats you like an adult. Costa Rica is a beautiful place that will stay in our heart and thoughts you long after you leave.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 5:32amExcuse me, is there a purpose for good health care if you have no way to protect your country? Should they not invest in life insurance instead of health care?
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:09pm@ EP46 For some reason Costa Rica has not had many problems with it’s neighbors or other foreign nations. It is a peaceful country that has managed to avoid civil unrest while nations throughout Latin America have had and to continue to have conflict after conflict. So back to your healthcare jab. All I can tell you my friend, is that Costa Rica has figured things out without having a military.
Pura Vida
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:58pmLets see, oh yea it is 2010. I do believe that there are things called a GPS, Even when we didn’t have GPS we knew where we were when I was in the military. Sheesh what a bunch of idiots…they probably think it would be great if they were surrounded, that way they could shoot in any direction.
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:43pmDoes US-DOD use Google? They got the data from the State Dept?
I wonder if “Whoppsey” would suffice?
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:54pmLol…
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:38pmwhy is the Nicaraguan military using Google Maps?
Report Post »bry
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:27pmNicaragua must have learned how to drive at the Obama School of Driving.. That is the worst school ever. First, they only teach you to make left turns. Just as dangerous, they teach the “D” does not stand for drive, it stands for “ditch”. After your accident, they advise you to blame the other car, which of course was parked and unoccupied. If all else fails, call the cops who responded to the scene “racist” if they try to take you in for DWI (driving without intelligence”.
Report Post »captquest
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:06pmAre they also learning combat tactics from playing Call of Duty 2?
Report Post »Colonial Revolutionary
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:30amCaptain,
Report Post »That‘s funny I don’t care who you are there.
Rn mom
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:55pmThat’s kinda funny- Nicaraguan military is relying on Google maps!!!! LMAO no wonder why they can’t catch the cartels
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:53pmI blame Bush.
If he hadn’t cut taxes and invaded Iraq, this wouldn’t have happened.
Report Post »gregory.prunty@gmail.com
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:44pmPsychosis lmao
Report Post »Easyrunner
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:43pmI can hear the liberals now…It‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:43pmNicaragua is part of the Latin American axis of evil, together with Venezuela and Cuba. They want to take over the few free countries left in the region, including Costa Rica.
Report Post »bolec slodkie
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:42pmIt’s just more proof that big brother will never get cotrol.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:49pmThank you, LORD! Can you name ONE thing they do well?
Report Post »workin4alivin
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:23pmThey really make a lot of manure, i mean fertlizer. oh, wait that is what they make bombs with-maybe that is the supply line we have been looking for….
Report Post »rogerroger
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:40pmIf google gave you directions to drive off a cliff would you do it? Most people wouldn’t. That‘s why it’s always a good idea to double check with other maps and your own common sense.
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:38pmIt appears that the mexicans are useing the same thing on our southern border.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 5:57amThey don’t need google. Obama told them it was theirs
Report Post »As Obama was pandering to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and pandering for the Hispanic vote, he claimed that “Mexicans” were here on the America continent long before “America was even an idea.” Problem again with progressive history is that Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810 and was recognized on September 27, 1821. One thing progressives REALLY hate is that America declared it’s independence in 1776.
Psychosis
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:37pmcan we get google maps to lose the maps for California, Massachusetts and Ney York? kinda make them all make left turns before they leave the states, so they cant leave? i would be funny watching all those liberal idiots making left turns at the borders lol
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:34pmNext thing you know Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California will be part of Mexico.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:52pmIf California becomes part of Mexico will Obama lend Callexico billions to drill offshore for Oil??
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:53pmAt times it seems that they already are.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:31pmWrong, Mexico is going to be the southernmost county of AZ or NM or TX.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:13pmyeah. I have wondered if Mexico would one day want CA, AZ, NM & TX back…… Maybe the drug cartells are setting the stage for something here….
Report Post »white swan
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:26amAfter this last election I say if Mexico wants California back let them have it!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 5:36amDid you miss the pictures on tv of the Mexicans waving Mexican flags and ‘demanding’ that Texas be returned to them?
Report Post »SJJB
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:01amIf Mexico got their wish and got back, Texas,New Mexico,Arizona and California then the States bordering these States would have an illegal immigration problem. They would be crossing over for jobs. The only thing Mexico is capable of creating is the Drug Cartels and corruption from the top down.
Report Post »joelack55
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:31pmSo Google is placing countries border lines now????
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:17pmGreat !!! How did they avoid invading Costa Rica before Google ???? Maybe Nicaragua really belongs to Costa Rica.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:20pmAlso, about the new President of Brazil……“She has the credentials for the job: as a former Marxist guerrilla she was jailed, tortured, twice divorced.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:30pmAnother one of the many ways to blame America.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:43pmlet me see if i was an army and i didnt know where i was. id say i was a pretty crappy army. i sure wouldnt count on google unless i was looking for a coffee shop in new york city.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:06pmRon, I wouldn’t count on it finding a coffee shop either. Apparently it sent people to the wrong voting precincts on 11/2.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:16pmBrazil elects a communist for their Pres and Nicaragua accidentally invades ….
Good time to get your 2nd ammendment groove on..
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:40pmMaulemall,
Report Post »Brazil already had a Marxist president. This woman was his successor. Lula da Silva went the Putin route, perhaps because Brazil is hosting the all-important 2016 Olympic Games, and he wanted to avoid international repercussions if he didn’t play the “democracy game.”
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:42pm@Maulemaul
And Soros has mega investments in Brazil, wonder what parts of the armaments business – military wise – he also controls? Start a war – destroy the economy – invest in rebuilding – establish one more socialist new world order state?
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:37pmSNOWLEOPARD….Yessiree bob….you move to the head of the class. Gotta look at these situations from the global standpoint. It makes it all so clear when you know the opponent’s intentions. Don’t forget that obama works for the globalists, too. Take a good long look at Obama‘s ’accomplishments’ and put your “global glasses” on…what do you see? I see an intentionally weakened economy, and an intentionally diminished world image,and an intentionally polarized citizenry. I also see unending generations dependent on entitlements to survive and a porous border intentionally making the idea of national security a joke.
Report Post »What worked in Europe and in Eastern Europe and the balkans. won’t work here (yet). We are strong(still) and armed(still,) and Christian(still), and those things make us the last bastion of right thinking in this whole world,(the political left excepted, of course).
The demonic murderers running this criminal enterprise, don’t want to lose the infrastructure in this land, and want to take us out without damaging too much of it. Thus, the dog and pony show which IS the Obama administration!
If you think this sounds bad, wait till the big boss shows up. he will say “ I come to bring peace and prosperity to the world”, but that is a lie.
This is a frontal attack on Chritianity, and many atheists and heathens know this. Expect to be shocked daily as more and more people move to the “dark side”. No one will be “on the fence”. We will be pleased as many also come out for the right, and the light, and the might of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
5
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:23pmNicaragua You need to invade GOOGLE Maps.
I’m sick of seeing My house on it. You can see My plate Number. I don’t do anything wrong. It’s the whole privet thing. I’m not out in public. They drove down My street without asking and took pictures of all my cars and 3 plate numbers. Anyone in the World can see where I live. I hate it. Someone should stop them. The overview map is more than enough to show where things are.
GOOGLE told Me to move Move! Where? The Sticks … It’s Bull Crap.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:09pm@Max Jones
Report Post »You got it!! Amen
grandmaof5
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:20pmSnowleopard, not only does Soros have investments in Brazil but the US is subsidizing his oil production in Brazil. That was part of either Stimulus or Tarp, can’t remember which. Can’t drill in Alaska, off the shores of FL (which ticks me off), or CA, but we can fund Soros. What’s wrong with this picture?
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:36pmNext Obummer will say the economy is googles fault.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:04pmron the veteran.. wouldn’t rely on Goggle for a coffee shop either they were sending people to the wrong Polls on election day..LOL.. you might find yourself at a tobacco shop..
Report Post »WORKS FROM HOME
Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:06pmWith all of the contracts google has with the government are troops will soon do the same.
We need to watch our reps every move and make sure everyone knows what they are doing. Blog about it and get paid. http://whamhost.info/
mizflame98
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:27amI wonder how they handled the whole map business before Google Maps? Did they stop by the local gas station to ask directions? What a bunch of dingus’
Report Post »bobby535
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:13amHAHAHAHA This headline made me laugh so hard. Thanks Blaze!!!!
Report Post »Jim S
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 2:07pmTheir fault for believing something on the internet…our fault for supplying bad info…don‘t get defensive just fix it or don’t supply info to Google…Goggle’s fault for believing the US Govt without a second source.
Report Post »tmmc18
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:08amSo… now it‘s Google’s fault and not Bush’s?… this is getting good.
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