After years of blank spaces, Google is updating its North Korean maps with data from Map Maker — and in the process, it's putting a name to the prison camps that dot the country. Buzzfeed's John Herrman notes that a search for "gulag" in North Korea brings up a string of camps across the country, including the "Yodok Gulag," known as the setting of the powerful memoir The Aquariums of Pyongyang. The camps have been seen in Google's satellite imagery for years, and activists like those at the North Korean Economy Watch have used the company's data to keep tabs on their development. But only now are they being specifically identified on Google's Maps, and with a particularly politically loaded term, albeit one that's hardly considered...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929430/google-officially-names-north-korean-gulags-on-updated-maps
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