Google Maps adds indigenous lands in Canada after long omission

Source: The Guardian

June 21, 2017
Addition follows seven-year collaboration between company and indigenous communities, following what a cartographer called an ‘insulting’ exclusion.

More than 3,000 parcels of land belonging to indigenous peoples in Canada have been added to Google Maps and Google Earth, in an initiative that seeks to remedy what one First Nations cartographer described as a historical exclusion.

The project – which follows similar efforts by Google in the US and Brazil – was the fruit of seven years of collaboration between the company, indigenous communities in Canada and Natural Resources Canada, said the cartographer Steven DeRoy.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/21/google-maps-earth-canada-indigenous-lands

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I wonder if maybe Canada has more respect for the indigenous than the US. My concern with Google mapping of native lands in the US is that corporations (and government) will target those lands more easily.