North Korea Makes Google Maps Debut
Weeks after its Chairman Eric Schmidt’s secretive visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out 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.
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