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Mapping Your World
Different forms of maps are appearing.They allow independent travelers to get local knowledge of places they are visting,from the official to the unusual.Meanwhile,hi-tech developments are ereating new ways for us to map the world.Here are two of our favorites;
Green Maps
Green Maps allows people to share with the world their knowledge of environmentally friendly plaees and autactetions in the local areas. Users add information with a set of icons（图标）,making It easy to read any map ,whatever the nationalities of those who produce it . Apresent there are over five hundred
Map projects being developed in 54 countries Green Maps’ advertised idea is “think global,map local” .It is a wonderful way of gaining all sorts of a place ,ranning from
community garden to good places of bird watching.
Green Maps is not specifically intended for travelers. Not all of its maps are online, so it may be necessary for some users to communicate with producers through the Green Maps website.
Maps Mashups
Many people use online maps developed by Google, but not many know about the mashups of them. Working in a similar way to Green Maps, Maps Mashups allows people to add icons of their own to exsiting maps to express a certain topic. The mashups is so called because it combine all the knowledge you could ever need. It ranges from the extremely useful, such as where all the World. Heritage Site are, to the most bizarre （古怪的），such as where America’s munkest cities are.With the mashups added to the basic Google Maps, a multi-layered (多层的) map can be created.
【題組】61.Which of the following icons is most probably NOT used in Green Maps?
(A)it is produced by users all over the world
(B)it gathers various kinds of information
(C)it shaers icons with Green Maps
(D)it is a branch of Google Maps
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