El Banco Mundial y Google Maps

In 1494, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, whereby under the auspices of the Pope Alexander VI, the New World was split between the two Catholic powers ad majorem Dei gloriam. One fears that the institutional favor the World Bank is granting to Map Maker will very much work to the greater glory of Google in the developing world, but at the expense of the full, free, and open access to the valuable information created by its own citizen cartographers.

Esa cita hace referencia al acuerdo entre El Banco Mundial y Google, por el cual el Banco va a promover en el mundo en desarrollo la plataforma de Mapas de Google en detrimento de otras plataformas libres. Eso a pesar de lo escrito por una empleada del mismo Banco en el NYT, alabando a OpenStreetMaps.

Visto en MapBrief.