Google has submitted additional documents related to the overseas transfer of high-precision maps requested by the government.
According to the government and the information technology (IT) sector, at about 11 p.m. on the 5th, Google emailed supplemental documents to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport requesting the transfer of high-precision maps overseas. The day was the deadline the government set for Google to submit the supplemental documents.
The government plans to convene a "consultative body on the overseas transfer of surveying results" based on the additional documents Google submitted to discuss whether to allow the transfer of high-precision maps. However, it is expected to take several months after the consultative body's discussions to reach a final conclusion.
Earlier, in November last year, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport held a consultative meeting at the National Geographic Information Institute to discuss the issue of transferring high-precision maps and then asked Google to submit supplemental documents. Google also requested the transfer of maps in February last year, but the consultative body deferred a decision twice, in May and August of the same year, extending the processing deadline.
The maps Google requested to transfer are at a 1:5,000 scale, high-precision maps that represent an actual distance of 50 meters as 1 cm on the map. The government received the same request in 2007 and 2016 but has rejected it on national security grounds.