Until Tuesday, North Korea appeared on Google Maps as a near-total white space - no roads, no train lines, no parks and no restaurants. The only thing labeled was the capital city, Pyongyang. This all ...

(AP) Google Inc. has helped fill the gap in one of the last remaining information black holes in the world by releasing a detailed map of North Korea that adds street names, monuments and its ...

The geographic data in question involves highly precise maps with a 1:5,000 scale, where 1 centimeter (0.39 inch) on the map represents 50 meters in the real world — detailed enough to identify small ...

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would ...

Every day hundreds of visitors step off the AREX train at Seoul Station, tap Google Maps, and discover that the blue-dot app they use everywhere from Berlin to Bangkok will not provide walking or ...

Google’s export request for South Korea’s map data has continued to be put on hold by the South Korean government for various reasons since 2007. South Korea has once again delayed its decision on ...

SEOUL, South Korea - Google Inc. has helped fill the gap in one of the last remaining information black holes in the world by releasing a detailed map of North Korea that adds street names, monuments ...