OpenGreenMap - Overview

Sharing Your Sustainable Worldview

Green Map System has promoted inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world since 1995, using mapmaking as our medium. Over 450 locally-led map projects in 50 countries have successfully published more than 350 Green Maps, used by millions to connect with green living, nature, social and cultural resources near home and while traveling. While all use Green Map Icons to highlight both positive and challenging sites, each powerful guide is unique.

Now, we're taking our inclusiveness mission the next step by developing an open interactive Green Mapmaking tool that will help people worldwide quickly share their own selection of sustainability sites, pathways and resources online. Merging local knowledge and our freshly updated iconography with a Google Map, the resulting interactive Open Green Maps will be viewable from our own and many other websites, starting in mid-2008. By sharing open public commentary, green ratings, multimedia elements, 'impacts index', mobile access, onsite markers and more, everyone will be able to get involved.

Explore - Expand - Exchange with this Social Mapping website!

Open Green Map will give voice to thousands and ensure that an enormous diversity of successful sustainability activities and models are shared with the broadest audience possible. Merging the booming ‘going local’ and green development movements with social networking and interactive mapping, OpenGreenMap begins with our network's collective inventory of green sites. Each of these maps will be linked to the related profile and locally-designed full-scale Green Maps already viewable at GreenMap.org. Designed to help everyone overcome technical barriers to participation, we intend to phase in public mapmaking, mobile formats, thematic worldviews, and more.

Open Green Map will encourage local participation and dialogue that counters global climate change, supports vibrant biodiversity and heritage preservation while addressing social and cultural challenges. It will promote more diverse involvement by guiding newcomers to get involved in important greening activities, encourage long-time residents to make more sustainable everyday choices, build students' eco-literacy and leadership skills, provide visitors with best practice models to share back home, and motivate decision-makers to act for the common good.

Join our growing list of Open Green Map Supporters

America’s Giving Challenge (OGM ranked in the Top Ten), NetSquared Challenge (OGM was a finalist), New York City Environmental Fund, the Rivington Ridge Fund, Con Edison, our Board of Directors, Green Mapmakers worldwide, and Anonymous. Please CLICK HERE to donate online or learn about other tax-deductible ways to support this effort!

Accomplishments

Alpha Development Version is open

Netsquared Mashup Challenge - Featured Project

Presented at Where 2.0 and Beyond Broadcast conferences

Enjoy this 3 minute video about the Open Green Map