Finally, I, Pinger, a volunteer from Taiwan now in GMS office NYC for a short visit, have uploaded 52 profiles of Taiwan Green Maps that were published in the past years onto the GMS website. As I worked through the maps, I found some very interesting maps, and also have some suggestions for mapmakers.

The interesting maps... Many interesting maps have a distinctive theme or a creative or unique way of looking at their communities. For example, a map for HsingChu, Taiwan, was created by students of an elementary school who went out to investigate their community and found sites that were environmental friendly and that were polluted or needed improvement. The students decided to create two maps for their community. One is called "Treasure Hunting" map that is the "Green Map" of their community, and the other "the Black Skull" map in which polluted sites were marked with skulls of different colors to indicate the level of pollution, and "remedies" were given to each polluted site.read more »