“Google has rolled out a detailed map of North Korea 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. Mr Mysore said the North Korea section had been completed with the help of a ‘community of citizen cartographers’ working over a period of several years.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/29/google-unveils-detailed-north-korea-map-with-gulags/
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