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Web GIS in Practice: Creating Interactive Maps in Taiwan
4.3 Map Blogs
Anyone can freely apply for membership on EasyMap website. Members can create POI on their own map blogs, where they can place their favorite places such as restaurants, bookstores, shopping malls, fitness centers, and even their favorite family-tour locations. Subsequently, users can write down comments and upload photos. EasyMap users can publish their own map blogs to specific groups or the generic public. A group of the friends can join the specific theme map blogs and also mark POI on the theme maps. For example, friends can get along to mark “Chocolate” shops or “Chinese restaurants” on a map blog. Moreover, other web users can view a map blog and compare those shops by locations, prices, etc. Another example is to generate a promotion map of a musical band that plans to perform in various locations all over Taiwan. A map of concerts with photos can be established on EasyMap, so that the fans can know the next stops and follow the action.  Figure3 an example of Map Blog People can share their joy and happiness during occasions such as marriages with their relatives and friends. EasyMap provides sweet wedding maps for couples to design their own style of wedding invitation cards with maps. Couples can mark the wedding ceremony, upload wedding photos, and include any announcements. In addition, the wedding map can be marked with information like routes, traffic information, parking facilities, and accommodations such as hotels. Such information will be of immense help to those planning to attend the wedding ceremony.  Figure4 an example of Wedding Map A poster is way to integrate the map with a scenery. The map poster can help people to find the place and experience the beauty of the scenic location. 4.6 Invitation Cards EasyMap designs offer a wide range of invitation cards for various purposes like lover dating, birthday party etc. Folks can also select meeting places from the shop directory and then DIY their own invitation cards. All invitation cards include the map of a selected location. Thus, it becomes very convenient for users to inform their friends about the location.  Figure5 an example of invitation card |