Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Blab Lab
I encountered this amazing website recently: an open source project that has set out to make Green Maps all over the world.
Treehugger
Real-Time Mapping of Growing Green Communities: Green Maps to become interactive green social networks...
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...
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.
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?
Angelique Vengelen, Amplified Green
... great example of how thinking globally by acting locally works in practice... I have instant access to comprehensive information that makes life a lot easier.
Kanwar Chadha, SiRF-
...Location enabled application deliver increasingly valuable... content to consumers...a great example [is] Open Green Map.
TeleAtlas
...A social mapping web site...empowering widespread participation in critical local environment, climate and equity issues worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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...
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!
