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Taiwan is quite a hot topic in the news and geo-political discussion. Recently I read an thead discussing defense plans in the southern part of Pingtong by Taiwan Infantry Command officers on Taiwan BBS PTT military board.

Even though maps are blurred due to the detailed map might have some sensitive military information, it can easily be recognized by the green forest area, that the based maps they use are actually OpenStreetMap. Thanks to the hard-working OpenStreetMap mappers that keep drawing forests in Taiwan.

There are more services, developers, organizations, and even government agencies using OpenStreetMap as based map recently. And the 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival was held in Taipei, and their website also is using OpenStreetMap as the base map. The community in Taiwan is lazy to keep track of those use cases. We hope there are more interesting OpenStreetMap use cases in Taiwan.