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Re:Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps? by senko on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:16PM (#27187157)
> areas of the world where the map itself is political

That would be everywhere. Even the most boring border in the world is political: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Ca...

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Re:Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps? by The_Colonel on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:41PM (#27187480)
> Even the most boring border in the world

US-Canadian border is definitely one of the more intense borders I crossed. And some of the horror stories I heard (e.g. Peter Watts) sound pretty bad. It might be the most boring US border though.

Really boring borders can be found in EU/Schengen where you drive by a sign announcing a different country and that's it. There are even more boring (and interesting at the same time) borders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau#/media/File:Baar...

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Re:Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps? by packetslave on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:19PM (#27187201)
Right, hence the team of lawyers and policy people that Google (and presumably Microsoft, Apple, and anyone else who runs a mapping product) pay to figure out how to craft a policy that at least APPEARS non-political.
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