The Sudan "DEMO", a phantom landscape feature only found in Google Maps

Rob Beschizza

4:43 pm Wed, May 29, 2019

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.