August 24, 2011

border mapping awareness: responsabilities and tension

How much we are responsible for the information we are given to visualize?
Well, no one can answer and each case might be without a precedent, individual..

What about mapping the new borders of country? Country that had been fighting for the independence and got it. And then,the new borders are not moved on those interactive maps. Those, the most often used, like Google Maps. Hm.. people get more tense talking about political borders..

So, the story is, the South Sudan is still not in Google Maps.

The full story is in Read Write Web

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