● North Korea is so paranoid about its citizen accessing the Internet that merely owning a computer requires permission from local government authorities.
● All personal computers are registered with the Police .
● Private Ownership of fax machines is banned outright and sending even asingle fax requires high-level authorization .
● Pirated DVD's of South-Korean Dramas are so illegal that North Koreans caught red-handed can be sentenced upto 10 years in labour camps.
Therefore, It's quite easy to estimate the number of beltings one would get for breaking an Internet law in North Korea.
Still, North Korea does have Internet -
● There is a group of privileged elites in North Korea who can access the real Internet, which is forbidden to everyone else.
● North Korea's circle of internet users is so small that country has only 1024 IP addresses for 25 million people (US has billions of IP addresses for 316 million people)
Now, Coming to your actual question.
Here's how Google did it !
The goal of Google Maps is to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use modern map of the world.
But For a long time, North Korea was robbed of this privilige owing to lack of data and low internet penetration.
But Google is Google.They're uber cool and had to get this done at any cost -
● A Community of citizen, Cartographers spent years using Google Map Maker to contribute to the draft.
● It commonly takes Map Maker Community a few years to generate enough high quality data to make something that works in Google Maps.
● It was only after proper collection of high quality data like - Name of Streets, Points of Interest ,Monuments, Nuclear Complexes, Prison Camps etc that the Map went live in the month of January, 2013.
This way, Google is giving the world a never-before-seen, detailed view of one of the most secretive countries in the world.
Let us all thank Google for being Super Cool because Cool nowadays is too mainstream .
● All personal computers are registered with the Police .
● Private Ownership of fax machines is banned outright and sending even asingle fax requires high-level authorization .
● Pirated DVD's of South-Korean Dramas are so illegal that North Koreans caught red-handed can be sentenced upto 10 years in labour camps.
Therefore, It's quite easy to estimate the number of beltings one would get for breaking an Internet law in North Korea.
Still, North Korea does have Internet -
● There is a group of privileged elites in North Korea who can access the real Internet, which is forbidden to everyone else.
● North Korea's circle of internet users is so small that country has only 1024 IP addresses for 25 million people (US has billions of IP addresses for 316 million people)
Now, Coming to your actual question.
Here's how Google did it !
The goal of Google Maps is to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use modern map of the world.
But For a long time, North Korea was robbed of this privilige owing to lack of data and low internet penetration.
But Google is Google.They're uber cool and had to get this done at any cost -
● A Community of citizen, Cartographers spent years using Google Map Maker to contribute to the draft.
● It commonly takes Map Maker Community a few years to generate enough high quality data to make something that works in Google Maps.
● It was only after proper collection of high quality data like - Name of Streets, Points of Interest ,Monuments, Nuclear Complexes, Prison Camps etc that the Map went live in the month of January, 2013.
This way, Google is giving the world a never-before-seen, detailed view of one of the most secretive countries in the world.
Let us all thank Google for being Super Cool because Cool nowadays is too mainstream .
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