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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...
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
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.
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.
Green in the city
...And just when I thought it didn't get better, I stumbled across...Open Green Map. ...input our latest environmental finds onto a public, interactive, online map.
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.
Kanwar Chadha, SiRF-
...Location enabled application deliver increasingly valuable... content to consumers...a great example [is] Open Green Map.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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…
Leslie Garrett, The Star
You'll find eco-offerings – and much more...
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!
Click2Map
Blab Lab
I encountered this amazing website recently: an open source project that has set out to make Green Maps all over the world.
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.
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...
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...
Janet Felsten, Baltimore Green Mapmaker
...working with Green Map System...to harness social entrepreneurship with the ...Open Green Map to create a financially viable, sustainable and expanding local network...
