North Korea Uncovered

Comprehensive mapping of North Korea

North Korea Uncovered
Keywords	North Korea, Geography, Politics, Government
Project type	Academic
Objective	Comprehensive multi-dimensional Google Earth mapping of the infrastructure of North Korea
Participants	Curtis Melvin, et al.
Duration	? 2007 – June 2009
Website	www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/

North Korea Uncovered is a comprehensive set of mappings of North Korea. It includes in-depth coverage of thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, and main roads of the country, and even includes the entrance to the country's subterranean nuclear test base, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.

The mapping was the result of a two-year effort by doctoral student Curtis Melvin and other volunteers, who pored over hundreds of news reports, images, accounts, books, and maps in order to identify the geographic and political sites. The result has been called one of the most detailed maps of North Korea available to the public in 2009.^[1] It is available as a small KMZ file, viewable with Google Earth. Between April 2007 and April 2012, the data file was downloaded more than 270,000 times.^[2]

References

^ Asher Moses (2009-06-02). "Amateur spies put North Korea on the map". Brisbane Times (BrisbaneTimes.com.au), Australia. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
^ "North Korean Economy Watch". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-04-14.

External links

North Korea Uncovered, (North Korea Google Earth), a comprehensive mapping of North Korea on Google Earth
#AccessDPRK is a similar Google Earth project which was completed in 2017 and contains over 53,000 placemarks