Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
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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.
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...
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.
Treehugger
Real-Time Mapping of Growing Green Communities: Green Maps to become interactive green social networks...
Blab Lab
I encountered this amazing website recently: an open source project that has set out to make Green Maps all over the world.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
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.
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
