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 ...

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 ...

Apparently the way Google Maps draws one particular section of the border between the two countries is off by about 3000 meters, showing it to be Nicaraguan territory when in fact it’s Costa Rican.

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 ...

There are few things more panic inducing than landing in Costa Rica and realizing you can’t load Google Maps or message your ...

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, ...

For the first time in its history, the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Health (INCIENSA) has managed to sequence the genome of a virus. Thursday, it announced it had ...

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 ...