Featured By : Bill Love
When four laser-guided NATO bombs ex-ploded
through the roof of the Chinese em-bassy
in Belgrade last May, the shock
waves sent the Defence Mapping commu-nity
throughout the world running for
cover. Left with its unenviable record of
data inaccuracies exposed was the National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) -the
former Defence Mapping Agency
(DMA) of the United States government.
This otherwise prestigious and highly re-spected
Mapping Agency, which has pio-neered
new technologies and leads the
world in digital map production, now
stands accused of the error which resulted
in the death of three people and twenty in-jured.
According to the Los Angeles Times,
the NIMA map was printed in 1997 after
the embassy moved to its new location. Ac-cording
to the newspaper, NIMA has a list
of “at least a dozen” other errors since 1985
resulting in fatalities and loss of military
aircraft.
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