RR Phantom
![RR Phantom](https://2img.net/u/2514/27/72/62/avatars/6-70.jpg)
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
![Google unveils detailed North Korea map, with gulags Vide](https://2img.net/i/fa/vide.gif) | Subject: Google unveils detailed North Korea map, with gulags Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:33 pm | |
| Weeks after its chairman Eric Schmidt's secretive visit to North Korea, Google has released a detailed map of the isolated state that even labels some of its remote and infamous gulags.
![Google unveils detailed North Korea map, with gulags Artnkorea1620x349](https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img560/2787/artnkorea1620x349.jpg)
Until now North Korea was pretty much a blank canvas to users of Google's "Map Maker", which creates maps from data that is provided by the public and fact-checked in a similar process to that used by Wikipedia.
"For a long time, one of the largest places with limited map data has been North Korea. But today we are changing that," Jayanth Mysore, a senior product manager at Google Map Maker, said in a blog post.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-unveils-detailed-north-korea-map-with-gulags-20130130-2djlr.html#ixzz2JQjITKZJ
|
|