{"id":1845060,"date":"2025-10-16T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1845060"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:32:24","slug":"south-korea-deciding-whether-to-grant-google-and-apple-access-to-domestic-map-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/10\/south-korea-deciding-whether-to-grant-google-and-apple-access-to-domestic-map-data\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Deciding Whether to Grant Google and Apple Access to Domestic Map Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>: \u201cSouth Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would show streets, buildings, and alleyways in far greater detail than currently available on these platforms. However, several regulatory and security hurdles remain unresolved.\u201d South Korea, which is technically still at war with North Korea, restricts data from the National Geographic Information Institute<\/a> from being used outside the country, and has denied previous requests from both Google and Apple; Google, which stores its map data outside South Korea, has hitherto had to make use of less-detailed, lower-resolution data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TechCrunch: \u201cSouth Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. 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