Nicaraguan troops accidentally invaded Costa Rica due to a Google Map error.
The troops were accused of crossing the hotly disputed Nicaragua border into Costa Rica and setting up camp for the night after taking down a Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag.
Commander, Eden Pastora, told Costa Rica's La Nacion newspaper that Google Maps was used to justify the incursion. Nicaraguan government officials have also blamed a bug in Google for the error.
The error lies in Google's depiction of the border in part of the Caribbean coast, near the San Juan River, the center of the dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua that arose over the latter's dredging of a river separating the two countries.
While the border between the two countries was displayed incorrectly by Google Maps, the version on Microsoft's Bing maps was accurate. The US Department of State provided a corrected version and Google is updating their maps.
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