An error on Google Maps has caused an international conflict in Central America. A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area ...

The Internet application Google Maps has found itself in the middle of the ongoing border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Costa Rican media sources this week expressed outrage that the ...

Nicaraguan troops planted a flag on Costa Rica's Calero Island Credit: Photo: REUTERS Nicaraguan troops last week crossed the San Juan river, which divides the two countries near the Caribbean coast, ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Costa Rica is recovering from the shock of a Nicaraguan border incursion over the small matter of a Google map misunderstood by the invaders. Or perhaps the ...

Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps by Matt McGee at Search Engine Land reported a some what comical but yet serious matter blamed on Google. In short, the commander of the Nicaraguan ...

A Google Maps mistake led to Nicaragua mistakenly invading Costa Rica, which makes driving your car into a ditch after blindly following your sat-nav seem a little less serious. The Nicaraguan armed ...

Former Nicaraguan military commander Eden Pastora is blaming Google Maps for ordering his army to invade a portion of Costa Rica, according to Search Engine Land. The troops set up camp, took down a ...

“Costa Rica is seeing its dignity smeared and there is a sense of great national urgency [to resolve this problem],” Chinchilla said after meeting Insulza. In a blog post at the weekend, Google ...

Here's a interesting bizarre one. There's only one highway that connects Costa Rica and Nicaragua (I walked across it, shown above), but you can totally swim from one country to the other if you ...

It reads like a headline out of The Onion, but Nicaraguan troops really did raise their flag on land that Costa Rica claims as its own, thanks to a glitch in Google Maps. Good morning. I'm Renee ...

The Intercontinental Hotel of Ponce was opened in 1960 on the island of Costa Rica After 15 years it was closed and the property abandoned Today it is closed to visitors and it's forbidden to enter ...