Munnar Hill Station (Photo credits: Ashley Ann Mathew 🙂)

My hometown Munnar is a beautiful hill station located in south western Kerala, known for its tea plantations that cover the countryside like a picturesque green carpet. Munnar town is situated at the confluence of 3 ( “Munnu” in Malayalam) Rivers ( “Aaru” in Malayalam) and hence the name Munnar. The modest beginings of the town and plantations were laid during the British Raj and it has today morphed into a quaint little town that is a favourite with nature lovers. It is the nearest town to Anamudi peak, which is the highest peak in South India. The Eravikulam National Park is another tourist attraction, that is home to flora and fauna such as the Neelakurinji flowers (that blossoms once in 12 years) and the Nilgiri Tahr. Other famous landmarks include the Tea Museum, the Mattupetty dam and the Indo swiss farm.

Coming to the Map, most of the places mapped were done primarily for tourism purposes. Hence, I found mostly resorts and hotels tagged. Also, the roads were mapped in a crude manner. As a start, I mapped most of the public buildings and points of interests like shops, hospital, school, playground and auditorium. I also corrected many of the buildings I found wrongly tagged. In the future, I would like to remap the roads and add more buildings.

Most of the roads are way out of the right path as seen below, that needs to be reviewed and improved :

Overview of Munnar town after mapping!

Mapping Munnar unleashed a wave of memories in me - it truly is my favourite place in the world.