{"id":4518,"date":"2013-01-29T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2013-01-29T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:29:40","slug":"north-korea-finally-in-google-maps-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4518","title":{"rendered":"North Korea finally in Google Maps, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-4519\" title=\"google-earth\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/google-earth-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/google-earth-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/google-earth.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>So while the rest of the world has already been cartographed and also made<br \/>\navailable with satellite images, North Korea was a simple plain white spot as<br \/>\nthere were no satellite pictures allowed or cartographic material made in the<br \/>\npast. Now North Korea has also reached the digital cartographic age.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But why so late? Was it the regime of Kim Jong-Il that prohibited all possible form of digital exposion of the country&#8217;s interna, even geographical infrastructure?<\/p>\n<p>No one knows for sure but now most of the continents are now virtually explorable and Google Street Maps allows you to travel thru some cites\/country already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while the rest of the world has already been cartographed and also made available with satellite images, North Korea was a simple plain white spot as there were no satellite pictures allowed or cartographic material made in the past. Now North Korea has also reached the digital cartographic age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2355,2354,2356],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","tag-google-maps","tag-north-korea","tag-satellite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}