Skua to Mildly Interesting • 2 months agoGoogle has only mapped the shape of the river Sepik on the Indonesian side of the bordermedia.kbin.earthimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down10
arrow-up1224arrow-down1imageGoogle has only mapped the shape of the river Sepik on the Indonesian side of the bordermedia.kbin.earthSkua to Mildly Interesting • 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoFun fact: Google has to decide what territory belongs to who, even if countries disagree on it. Example: Taiwan
minus-square@breakingcupslink29•2 months agoNo they don’t. They show one version to one side and another version to the other side.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 months agooh sorry that’s what I meant 😅 Learned it from someone on discord at like 3am
minus-square@AnUnusualReliclink2•2 months agoThey could. Or they could use the UN consensus. But they don’t.
Fun fact: Google has to decide what territory belongs to who, even if countries disagree on it. Example: Taiwan
No they don’t. They show one version to one side and another version to the other side.
oh sorry that’s what I meant 😅
Learned it from someone on discord at like 3am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_UVPTdjxC0
They still have to decide. It just varies.
They could depict regions as contested.
They could. Or they could use the UN consensus.
But they don’t.