Soichiro Takesaki (Chugoku Syoten)
Chugoku Syoten is a map specialty store based in Hiroshima, Japan, and has been in operation since 1945. For more than 50 years, the company has published "Watashitachi no Hiroshima (Our Hiroshima)", a supplementary social studies textbook used for regional studies in the third and fourth grades of elementary schools in Hiroshima City.
Although in-store sales of paper maps—including those published by Geospatial Information Authority of Japan—were discontinued in 2017, the publication of educational cartographic materials remains a core activity of the company.
Session
This presentation introduces a development plan for a web-based map application for "Watashitachi no Hiroshima (Our Hiroshima)", a supplementary social studies textbook for regional studies that has been used in elementary schools in Hiroshima City for over 50 years.