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.

North Korea was long a big blank space on Google Maps. No roads were visible. No train lines. In fact, Pyongyang, the secretive communist nation's capital, was the only identified landmark. Google ...

A heart-shaped island off the coast of Croatia is capturing attention from Google Maps users after they spotted the unusual piece of land on satellite.

A new lawsuit alleges Philip Paxson died using Google Maps at night after he drove off a North Carolina bridge that collapsed nine years prior.

In an astonishing new discovery, Google Earth has confirmed development on the isolated North Sentinel Island, home to one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world. Using satellite imagery from ...

On Google Maps, Sandy Island appears in satellite view as a gaping black hole about 20 miles long. Switch to Map view and yep, it’s still there, even though it shouldn’t be.

Google used the help of a group of "citizen cartographers" who spent years updating the map of North Korea using Google Map Maker -- a feature that lets users add details to Google Maps.

From space, the nighttime map of North Korea has a curious distinction: it is almost completely dark. Next door, South Korea glitters with great splotches of economic life, and, on the other side ...

Live Activities will allow Google Maps users to view turn-by-turn directions and the ETA in a single live-updating Lock Screen notification, and in the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro and the ...

Thanks to a community of keen citizen cartographers, however, Google is rolling out some significant improvements to its North Korea maps, the company said Monday.

Maps by AutoNavi/SK M&C/Google (left) and National Geographic Maps (right) Opinion: Sizing Up Google’s New North Korea Map The search company shows the promise and pitfalls of citizen cartography.

Google publishes detailed maps of North Korea for the first time It says "citizen cartographers" used map making software to add the data The maps show the reclusive regime's main nuclear complex ...