Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
You can download the original postings here.
Kate's Green List
I looked up the map for my area and it was interesting to see all the different "green" types of things I was unaware of just in my part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Leslie Garrett, The Star
You'll find eco-offerings – and much more...
Fred Bordage, ZDnet
L’objectif de ces cartes est de permettre aux internautes de découvrir les commerces, produits et services durables proches de leur domicile. Encore un bel exemple de relocalisation et désintermédiarisation de l’économie rendu possible grâce aux technologies web dernier cri.
Tom Stafford, Idiolect
The Green Map project made me look at the maps (...) and ask why what was on them was on them. Why the roads and the petrol stations, why not the scenic routes through park, the community cafes and the places you could lock your bike up?
EcoGeek.org
...since it is interactive, the locals who really know their home can give the inside scoop – it’ll be like being with the green in-crowd wherever you are…
SSoA - Live Projects 2008
There is loads of content and maps. Interestingly you can create maps of the people making the maps featured, relating to the point raised over the social network and communities being potentially more important then the map itself.
Josh Flynn, Flynnfinity
Somebody posted [a green site], which is how I found out about this site. I am actually kind of surprised I never came across it before.
Planet Pink n' Green
This online map program is fabulous and I'm inspired. What a cool way to get connected and see what's green around the country.
Adrian, Open Green Map user
This Green Map tool is a great idea! It will be great to be able to interact with fellow green citizens around me through this medium.
Spatial Sustain
...one of the more intriguing Google Maps interface efforts... certainly in line with their exquisite map design efforts to date… I look forward to contributing...
CNET
Green lifestyle pointers and DIY tips come in more than a few flavors...Green Map guides, in hundreds of cities, chart local green resources.
TeleAtlas
...A social mapping web site...empowering widespread participation in critical local environment, climate and equity issues worldwide.
Tonic
... alternative cartography... that includes details that only the locals know. Where do they get all that information? Locals like you! Tell the world about the green scene on your block!
Blab Lab
I encountered this amazing website recently: an open source project that has set out to make Green Maps all over the world.
Click2Map
Kanwar Chadha, SiRF-
...Location enabled application deliver increasingly valuable... content to consumers...a great example [is] Open Green Map.
Springwise
The project’s impact will hit a whole new level with the introduction of Open Green Map: a community site that makes the project accessible to all...
James Brown - On The Road
I encourage you to play around with the Opengreenmap interface. This is true web convergence at work: wiki-style user-generated content and google maps.
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
Springwise
Combining the expansion of the mobile internet and the desire to live green, Open Green Maps use technology to connect communities in the real world.
