How Google Maps deals with border disputes: Two Countries, Three Maps

Re:How Google Maps deals with border disputes: Two Countries... by compay on Friday October 23, 2009 @01:09PM (#899161)

They're inconsistent with this in Argentina; the Falkand/Malvinas islands disputed by Argentina and the UK are not shown as part of Argentina, and the English names of all the landmarks are used rather than the Spanish ones.

http://maps.google.com.ar/?ie=UTF8&ll=-51.76104,-59.8178...

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Re:How Google Maps deals with border disputes: Two Countries... by NikkiA on Friday October 23, 2009 @04:07PM (#899527)

Probably because there isn't really contention over the issue at the present between the two countries involved.

Individual people in Argentina may well believe that they have a right to the Malvinas, but the official Argentinian government has not asserted any claim to them since 1982 (when the Falklands war occurred, for anyone unaware of it :)

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Re:How Google Maps deals with border disputes: Two Countries... by compay on Friday October 23, 2009 @08:11PM (#899868)

You're wrong. The claim over the islands was laid out in Argentina's constitution in 1985, which you can read here (on page 22):

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:RZIivRFbg_8J:ww...

Additionally, the president of Argentina raised the issue with the UK Prime Minister in their meeting in Chile earlier this year.

So anyway, Argentina claims the Falklands/Malvinas as their territory, but your or my opinion on the claim is irrelevant to the discussion. My point is, that maps.google.com.ar, the Argentine version of Google maps, shows a map supporting the British side of the claim, which is inconsistent with the policy described by the article.

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