Azerbaijan State Land and Cartography Committee will appeal to Google in connection with the distortion of geographical names in Azerbaijan in the satellite images posted on the Google Maps, chief of topography, geodesy and cartography department of the State Land and Cartography Committee Rafig Huseynli told.
Huseynli said such cases happened several times, the State Land and Cartography Committee sent the reports to the National Security Ministry, relevant government agencies, letter of protest to the company. After the letters were sent, Google made some corrections in the maps.
According to Rafig Huseynli, they will appeal to the company for the elimination of the mistakes after they familiarize with Google map 2011.
“We will demand the company to eliminate the mistake. Azerbaijani geographical names were also shown with Armenian names in one of the websites of Microsoft. We expressed our protest. After that some changes were made in the maps,” he said.
Fuzuli region is shown as – Varanda, Zangilan-Kovsakan, Kalbajar – Karvachar, Aghdam – Akna, Gubadli – Sanasar, center of Lachin region – Berdzor, Jabrayil – Jrakan in www.maps.google.com. Khankendi located in Nagorno Karabakh is shown as Stepanakert, Agdere – Mardakert, Khojavend – Martuni.
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