Thursday, June 30, 2011

Arrogant Cartography

I was looking something up on Google Maps today when something significant struck me. Most countries spell and pronounce the name of their country completely different from the American/English version. I dunno...seems pretty disrestpectful in this modern globally interconnected world.

Check out Europe for a taste of what I mean. -I do give Google props for putting the correct name in a larger font.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=45.336702,17.094727&spn=24.427528,46.494141&z=5

No comments: