The Sudan "DEMO", a phantom landscape feature only found in Google Maps
by Rob Beschizza from on (#4G4N8)
Data scientist Tim Hopper noticed that Google Maps displayed a humungous word in the outback of Magwi County, South Sudan: "DEMO".
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- Tim Hopper
(@tdhopper) May 28, 2019
After the discovery made it to the BBC, the DEMO sadly disappeared: a ghostly landscape feature lurking somewhere between Borges and Baudrillard on the slopes of misfortune.
