Daum has launched a North Korean mapping service, becoming the first South Korean portal to offer maps of the country’s northern neighbor.

The maps are based on data from South Korea’s National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) and, according to local media, provide greater coverage of North Korea than Google Maps.

You can check the maps out for yourself on Daum’s mapping site.

The NGII’s data was previously available to South Korean government agencies and went on sale to the public in mid 2013. NGII offered the map, produced at a 1:25,000 scale, for 17,500 won (US$17).

It covers all of North Korea, detailing towns, roads, railways More >