Regardless of the interpretation of these maps, these do seem to show the power of a good tool built for the free market. Here you have an app on everybody's p

Regardless of the interpretation of these maps, these do seem to show the power of a good tool built for the free market. Here you have an app on everybody's phone that is such a useful tool that the government isn't even thinking to turn off in the middle of a war even when it's providing real time intelligence in the open about what is happening on the ground. This seems like a great example of how openness in technology can overwhelm even one of the least Democratic governments through transparent infrastructure. I bet when they were building Google maps back in the early/mid 2000s they never thought their tool would be used for real time tactical war reporting on civilian and troop movement.