Google has opened up Map Maker to users in Germany, Finland and the Åland Islands today, enabling citizens to update maps for their local area with new landmarks, roads and building outlines.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Reporting from the Aland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland For generations, the Aland Islands, an autonomous stretch of rocky coves in the middle of the Baltic Sea ...

The NLS believes that such a move would significantly weaken the reliability of its maps. If the proposal were accepted ... Pirkko Nuolijärvi, of the Institute for the National Languages of Finland, ...

But Finland is bound by treaty to keep these ... The Russians may have prepared to cut the cables around Aland, another warns. Map: The Economist Yet reopening long-standing agreements risks ...

Åland Island sits between Sweden and Finland. Picture: Google Maps. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has insisted Moscow will not accept Finland or Sweden joining NATO.

I checked the map; it seemed as though I had already ... car rental told me that she had moved with her parents from Finland to Aland when she was 2. Aland’s population has been steadily ...

Multi-millionaire Anders Wiklöf is one of Finland’s Richest men. LONDON -- A wealthy man in Finland has been handed a whopping €121,000 fine ($129,544) for speeding. Andres Wiklöf -- one of ...

A Strategic Baltic Archipelago What Happens If Russia Attacks Finland's Åland Islands? Finland's Åland islands have been demilitarized for over a century as part of a peace treaty with Russia.

Island Life on Åland, an autonomous region of Finland in the Baltic SeaIsland Life on Åland, an autonomous region of Finland in the Baltic Sea ...