Did you mean: concentration camp, north korea

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Go to Google maps and search for "Kaechon Concentration Camp No. 1, South Pyongan, North Korea."

Hat tip to the NBC Nightly News, Tuesday night. There are supposed to be reviews, but the link doesn't work.

[onehandle]

1. Yeah, NK was virtually roadless on Google Maps until the last few days.

Crowdsourcing and other unofficial methods have beefed up the maps.

NK must be very pissed.

Also, read the 'reviews' on Google:

https://plus.google.com/115571221846576317772/about?gl=us&hl=en

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. You were able to see streets in Pyongyang, weren't you?

I mean, before a few days ago. I don't mean street view (which doesn't sound too likely), but from the air.

[Posteritatis]

5. Some of the imagery, but I don't think there was nearly as much labeling. (nt)

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. Looking for Apple's next slave labor camp, are you? nt

[okaawhatever]

2. I looked it up but I don't think I understand what you're telling us to look for. please give more

specifics.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I copied directly from the title in the OP

and pasted it into Google Maps. Came right up.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=hp&tok=nfEsp8DCHrDoWIJ8MKfo6g&cp=60&gs_id=2p&xhr=t&q=Kaechon+Concentration+Camp+No.+1,+South+Pyongan,+North+Korea&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41642243,d.aWM&biw=1787&bih=932&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Terrain looks like parts of western PA.

Love this comment:

Pleasuring atmosphere all around. Lovely decor. Even the bathrooms are clean enough to eat off of. As a camp enthusiast you can't get more in touch with nature. Straight out of the train car you'll notice all the amazing and exotic wildlife. Every guard wears a smile. Has nearly no rats filled with diseases. Extremely welcoming. Lots of food. Plates of the finest cousin (cuisine?) state money can buy. Universally renowned chefs kidnapped from all over the world serve their finest dishes. Such a lovely getaway spot!!!

[okaawhatever]

7. oh, lol. thanks

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Elaboration

Google Fills In North Korea Map, From Subways to Gulags

ASIA TECHNOLOGY Updated January 29, 2013, 5:09 p.m. ET

By EVAN RAMSTAD

SEOUL—For the hundreds of millions of people who use Google Inc.'s online maps, North Korea has become a bit less of a cypher.

On Tuesday, the company revised its Google Maps application to add information for North Korea—from naming streets to marking the outlines of prison camps—beginning to flesh out a national map that has been largely unannotated since Google started providing maps online and for mobile devices eight years ago.

The new information for the North Korea map was the result of a so-called crowdsourcing effort, as people interested in the country contributed names of streets, districts, buildings and landmarks as part of a Google development program called Map Maker.

The updated view on North Korea also highlights areas where the country allegedly operates gulag-like work camps, believed to be some of the largest and most inhumane prisons in the world. Brown shading stands out against the light beige background, instantly imparting to a user of Google Maps the enormous size of the prisons.

Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all

Posted by Chico Harlan on January 28, 2013 at 9:25 pm

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 changed when Google, on Tuesday, rolled out a detailed map of one of the world’s most secretive states. The new map labels everything from Pyongyang’s subway stops to the country’s several city-sized gulags, as well as its monuments, hotels, hospitals and department stores.

According to a Google blog post, the maps were created by a group of volunteer “citizen cartographers,” through an interface known as Google Map Maker. That program — much like Wikipedia — allows users to submit their own data, which is then fact-checked by other users, and sometimes altered many times over. Similar processes were used in other once-unmapped countries like Afghanistan and Burma.

In the case of North Korea, those volunteers worked from outside of the country, beginning from 2009. They used information that was already public, compiling details from existing analog maps, satellite images, or other Web-based materials. Much of the information was already available on the Internet, said Hwang Min-woo, 28, a volunteer mapmaker from Seoul who worked for two years on the project.

This site is a good one:

North Korean Economy Watch

They have already produced an atlas of North Korea, which they feel is more detailed than Google's. Here is a link to it.

Link to 38 North’s DPRK Digital Atlas

http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2013/01/28/38-norths-dprk-digital-atlas/

http://www.38northdigitalatlas.org/

38 North

http://38north.org/

DPRK Digital Atlas

http://www.38northdigitalatlas.org/

I'm off to look up the explosion at Ryongchon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryongchon_disaster