Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Marco Kusumawijaya on The Jakarta Globe
It is important for people to revisit, and get to know their neighborhood in a comprehensive way. The idea behind this is: if you know more, you can love more. Green Map can also be used to voice concerns on neighborhood problems, which are often overlooked by urban planners. People should use Green Map to re-plan their neighborhood and make it more vibrant and sustainable.
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.
Leslie Garrett, The Star
You'll find eco-offerings – and much more...
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.
Click2Map
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...
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!
Kanwar Chadha, SiRF-
...Location enabled application deliver increasingly valuable... content to consumers...a great example [is] Open Green Map.
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...
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
TeleAtlas
...A social mapping web site...empowering widespread participation in critical local environment, climate and equity issues worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
