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Minamikawachi & Tondabayashi Green Map, Osaka
Past Mapmakers
At the Environmental Design Department, Osaka University of Arts, associate professor Kenta Shinozawa, his students and local groups will be charting open space, green space and landforms that reveal the development of the Tondabayashi City area.

Komoro Green Map, Nagano Pref.
Past Mapmakers
We create Green Map around Chikuma River/Mt. Asama painting festival with children. We are thinking about building up digital data of the map, and after that, publishing Komoro Green Map for educational purpose at each school in the city.

KSGU Green Map, Kobe City, Maya-Ward
Past Mapmakers
The KSGU Green Map Project is initiated as a research activity for a 1st year class in Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University. It tended to facilitate ecotourism in Kobe by mapping out potential natural, cultural, ecological resources in the area.

Green Map Planet, Kobe City, Nada-Ward　
Past Mapmakers
We are working as an intern under council member of Kobe City who is engaging in environmental issues. He is supervising our activity and advises us.

Green Map Kita-Kyusyu, Fukuoka Pref.
Past Mapmakers
This map is created by students and volunteers focusing on harmonious coexistence of nature and humans.

Kawasaki Green Map, Kanagawa Pref.
Past Mapmakers
Kawasaki Japan's Green Map is a project of Tama Art University graphic design graduate student Hironori Shimizu. His map is designed for senior citizens and was printed on shopping bags! Each cloth bag is silkscreened and has a unique pattern of embroidered Icons. The project included surveying users and developing related information design projects.

Kameoka Green Map, Kyoto
Past Mapmakers
In Kameoka City, Japan, students of aesthetics at Kyoto University of Art & Design will be Green Mapping with the assistance of younger students. Their professor, Hiroshi Uemura, says the layout is complete and he plans to publish a poster of this map in the near future.

Hokkaido Green Map
Past Mapmakers
Hokkaido, Japan will have a flora Green Map charting the whole prefecture. The Hokkaido Flower Consortium will be working with Yuji Sakamoto, a systems engineer with IAC Co., ltd to create this Japanese and English language Green Map.

Green Map in Higasiyama, Kyoto
Past Mapmakers
The Society for Life Environment at Kyoto Women’s University is creating the Green Map of Higasiyamaku district of Kyoto. Their aim is to be completed by summer 2007, according to Professor Takakuwa Susumu. There is great interest in traditional ways of fulfilling daily needs, especially in low-impact ways.

Hiroshima Ecopeace Map
Past Mapmakers
Peace and ecology after 1945 are the themes of the Green Map of Hiroshima, Japan, which is being created by Shoichiro Sendai, Associate Professor and his students at Laboratory of Architectural History & Design Theory, Hiroshima University. Youth, adults and elders work together on this project, called the Ecopeace Map. In early 2004, their wonderful and innovative Green Map was published.

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