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| 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.
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
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