Zaman Online, Turkey
March 18 2006
Turkey-Armenia Border Lost on Google Map
By Celil Sagir, Istanbul
Published: Saturday, March 18, 2006
zaman.com
Google, one of the most popular Search Engines in the world, failed
to give a place to the Turkey-Armenia border on its map.
A part of the Turkey-Armenia border does not exist in the world map
of the popular Google Earth program.
Indicating the borders with a yellow line, the map shows no sign of a
border in the Arpacay region, which constitutes the Armenian border,
and that the unfinished border line continues into Turkey up to
Cildir Lake.
There is also a gap in the border near the Igdir region, which is
very close to Armenia’s capital Yerevan.
The map shows the borders and territorial waters of other countries
explicitly and carefully with the yellow line. This indicates that
the blank in the border does not stem from Arpacay, a local river. It
is known that Armenia still preserves some of its demands on Turkish
lands.
Google, in a statement clarifying the issue to Zaman, accepted that
some data in Google Earth is missing and/or incorrect.
The company maintains the visual data for the maps is provided by
third parties and Google does not make any change to them in efforts
not to express any particular political or religious view.
Google also noted they are working on the issue to rid the maps of
any faults and inadequate information.
Google Earth, a popular method of allowing people to see even minor
streets of big cities, can be downloaded with a program available
from MDA Earth Sat, the National Geographic
Society and Google own the copyrights for the maps.
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