Map of North Korea seems rather just blank (right). Map of North Korea earlier just appears blank (right).
Google first published on a map of North Korea which contains much more information on its website.
Previous map this country usually just appears blank in the Google Maps service.
Data entered into a map of North Korea is collected by the system of Google Map Maker
whereby ordinary people take offer information based on satellite images or local knowledge.
This card information is, however, not available for the people who it closed.
Released in 2008, the data that has been used to map Maker Google maps for many countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The map Maker is active for the last few years and today new maps of North Korea has been prepared and is available in Google maps, '' said Jayanth Mysore, senior manager product Google Map Maker.
"As a result, the world now have access to the map North Korea that gives much more information and detail than ever before. ''
This policy after a private humanitarian visit to Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to North Korea.
Little information
In the case of North Korea, satellite images, instead of local knowledge, is the main data source. Because the people of North Korea can not access Google sites if want to add information.
Google says most of the citizens of South Korea contributed information to create a card that can be used in the North.
"A lot of people around the world interested in North Korea, this map became important for the citizens of South Korea, who have ancestral ties or still have relatives there, '' said Mysore.
At least one citizen of Australia who can not speak Korea claims to contributed information.
"I want to go to North Korea and since then uncharted then I started memetakannya so at least I see how easy it is to travel in the country, '' said Sebastiaan van Oyen, who works as a manager at a company financial risk in Sydney told the BBC.
Victor States that he used a satellite image data by calling '' the data is good enough to cover all areas of the country, although the quality of the data varies and dates. ''
"For a map of the base you will be fine, but it takes a long time to get a more reliable way of navigation. ''
He said, However, that the biggest obstacle in creating a detailed map to local knowledge to all of the features of the map.
"We must forget that there is a restricted area and not much local knowledge which is quite outside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is. ''