{"id":81615,"date":"2013-01-31T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/google-touts-satellite-navigation-as-economic-driver\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:39:47","slug":"google-touts-satellite-navigation-as-economic-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/google-touts-satellite-navigation-as-economic-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Touts Satellite Navigation As Economic Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Google, Satellite Navigation, North Korea<br \/>\nPublication: Phys.org<br \/>\nPublication Date: 01\/30\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"207\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Screen%20shot%202013-01-31%20at%205_00_06%20PM.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>The updated view of North Korea on Google Maps now incorporates main roads.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Google Maps\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After <strong>Google<\/strong> unveiled its new online maps of North Korea on Wednesday, the company has hyped studies that highlight how internet navigation tools can help boost the economic development of nations.  <\/p>\n<p>Geospatial technology benefits businesses by helping to reduce costs for logistics, and increasing their marketing potential.<strong> Oxera<\/strong> estimates that businesses around the world have saved approximately $17.3 billion because of using navigation technology to improve their logistics. <\/p>\n<p>Governments are also increasingly using the technology for emergency and disaster response, urban planning and transit improvements. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Oxera, the global geospatial industry accounts for $270 billion in annual revenue and companies in the sector pay more than $90 billion in wages each year. Additionally, the report predicts that the industry will grow by 30 percent annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Google, Satellite Navigation, North Korea Publication: Phys.org Publication Date: 01\/30\/2013 The updated view of North Korea on Google Maps now incorporates main roads. Image credit: Google Maps After Google unveiled its new online maps of North Korea on Wednesday, the company has hyped studies that highlight how internet navigation tools can help boost the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}