Not on the map: cartographic omission from New England to Palestine | Petter Hellström | Science | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/aug/22/not-on-the-map-cartographic-omission-history
The issue caught fire after the Forum of Palestinian Journalists accused Google of removing Palestine from their maps. This, the organisation argued, made the tech giant complicit in Israeli policies of annexation and settlement of the occupied territories. Google responded that they had never labelled Palestine in the first place, while blaming a technical bug for removing the labels for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. While many commentators pointed out the inflated nature of the claim, fewer have engaged with the long-term implications of cartographic omission.
