Articles about Green Map System are linked here, find some quotes below.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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.
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...
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!
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.
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.
Blab Lab
I encountered this amazing website recently: an open source project that has set out to make Green Maps all over the world.
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.
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.
Miljö för Miljoner
Small iniatives can make a difference and they can be mapped!
Leslie Garrett, The Star
You'll find eco-offerings – and much more...
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...
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.
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.
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...
