Google Maps shows North Korean gulags, streets

Google Inc.'s map with more details of North Koreahas gone live.

Google Maps shows details of North Korea, including streets,parks, monuments and train stops in the capital of Pyongyang. Until Tuesday,North Korea was among the few places in Google Maps where scant information wasavailable.

The map shows at least four places where North Korea'sgovernment is believed to operate prison camps.

Google says citizen cartographers started building the NorthKorea map in 2009 based on satellite images and other public information.

It also shows photographs of places in North Korea availableon the Web and those taken by people who visited there.

The U.S. company said the map is not perfect and buildingthe map is an ongoing process.

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