Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
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Treehugger
Real-Time Mapping of Growing Green Communities: Green Maps to become interactive green social networks...
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
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?
Trend Central
A useful tool for those looking to support sustainability initiatives... It's easy to publish, update and expand and is a great resource...
Be More Eco
[Green Map] will hit a whole new level with the ...Open Green Map: a community site that makes the project accessible to all...
Garden Rant - Susan Harris
Baltimore's Green Map was started as an antidote to a prominent local map with a not-so-positive impact - the one that plots all the homicide spots in the city, helpfully published on the Baltimore Sun website. The Green Map was envisioned as an "upbeat alternative to it that might inspire people to make the city a greener place" and I bet it does exactly that.
Supereco
...when I found out about Green Map, my map-lovin' heart skipped a beat...a global source for geographically charted information on all things green.
Elizabeth Dickinson, Urban Palimpsest
Our personal worldview can filter our spatial experience to create individualized interpretations of cities... We now have the power to map minutia at a grand scale.
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.
Click2Map
Kanwar Chadha, SiRF-
...Location enabled application deliver increasingly valuable... content to consumers...a great example [is] Open Green Map.
Max School Bus: the route to health in education
...With sites like this [Open Green Map], it's a way to explore and engage with their local communities, both online and off.
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.
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.
Tim Hurst - Celsias.com
...a new generation of maps like those at Green Map, mixes user-generated knowledge and information with freely-available, high quality digital cartography that can be made to help tell stories only locals could tell... Green Map has just launched a new web-based project to combine the maps into a single, open-sourced map, synthesizing the data into a geographic encyclopedia, of sorts.
Leslie Garrett, The Star
You'll find eco-offerings – and much more...
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.
Gautam Naidu, Green Mapmaker, India
...Green Map aims at identifying a sustainable way of living...[an] environment-friendly way of utilising existing and newly discovered ecological resources...
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.
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!
