We have provided you with three FAQs:
This one, which mainly covers the Open Green Map.
GreenMap.org has an overview FAQ (there is a Site Map too).
The third is an FAQ about becoming a Green Mapmaker.
You may also enjoy the and stories that have been written about us. There is much more to explore at GreenMap.org! If you have looked around the website and still have questions, our staff can help you by email. You can reach us by mail at PO Box 249, New York, NY 10002, or by phone at +1 212 674 1631.
We hope your experience with the Open Green Map, our local Green Maps, and our online resources is truly helpful and inspiring to you. We welcome your feedback, testimonials and suggestions.
Using the Open Green Map is a great way to support this effort! You can visit the sites on the maps, rate them, add your own comment and connections, images and videos and share how each green site has impacted your life. Use the Share This button to let your friends know about each site, and soon, you will be able to create a widget so you can display an Open Green Map within your own website or blog.
Promote our project with a banner (OGMabout***) and spread the news about this great resource.
We could not support a global movement that benefits communities worldwide without your support! We welcome donations, including tax-deductible financial contributions, in-kind donations and services (such as Pair network’s donated carbon neutral server, Google’s Maps API and AdWords, Nina Reznick, Esq’s on legal). You can support the ongoing development of mapmaking tools, outreach and communications resources that build leadership skills in youth and adults around the world, including many low-income areas.
Help us build the organizational, technical and network-wide capacity to cultivate effective local leadership that promotes a healthier and greener future, for all of us. Click Donation to find out more.
Shop at our Store! Buy printed maps, our books and media products.
Green Mapmakers worldwide and our Board in supporting the Open Green Map – see the full list of supporters here (OGMabout***). You can explore our organization's donor list, too. If you are a foundation, an enterprise or another entity working towards a more sustainable, equitable and verdant future, there are several ways to sponsor Green Map System. Sponsorships can be tailored to reflect specific interests and support levels.
There are different ways to take part in our growing global movement.
You can become the leader of your local community's Green Map team and make a major contribution to your home’s healthier, more sustainable future. Potential Green Mapmakers can explore the Participate section at GreenMap.org in order to register a new Green Map project, use our adaptable tools, our award-winning copyrighted icons and trademarked name. Currently, you must be a registered Green Mapmaker to create an interactive Open Green Map.
Our Participate section includes links for Green Map Users, Researchers, Journalists and Supporters. There are links for Youth and Global Citizens, too. There's a wealth of inspiring resources based on the experiences of Mapmakers worldwide!
A non-profit organization, Green Map System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as its medium. Active since 1995, the Green Map network of locally-led projects includes more than 480 cities, towns and villages in 53 countries.
Think Global, Map Local! Explore the hundreds of local Green Maps, the diverse Mapmakers who created them, our globally recognized iconography, our awards and news, and our organization's history at GreenMap.org.
Think Global, Map Social! In 2008, Green Map System developed the Open Green Map, a new social mapping website that is revolutionizing Green Mapmaking. It creates an online community space that helps people shares their insights, images and impacts about green sites on both a local and global scale. The About (OGMabout***) section has a general introduction. More about this interactive mapmaking and social networking platform is detailed below.
Here are ways you can add your own important input to Open Green Maps:
Click any site on the map. It opens with a small info-window.
Click the site's title or the + in the upper right corner for the expanded info-window.
Here, you can see the Mapmaker's Overview and a row of tabs. Each Tab has something you can do!
- Overview To rate the site, click the stars. 5 is best (hover to see the rankings).
- Comments Add an update and let everyone know how the site is evolving. Explain more about the site in any language. You can start a new comment or click the green 'reply' to respond to an existing comment.
- Connections Coming Soon! Click Links to add a link to a related website, news story or resource (please include a brief description and the specific URL).
Click Getting Here to explain how to get there on bike, foot or mass transit. You can add parking information for disabled or other special needs, too.
Newsfeed (RSS) and Digital Formats (such as widgets) will be added in the future. - Multimedia Share your own images and videos, and express yourself! Click the green links on the right and follow the instructions to embed the code or link from YouTube, Flickr, etc. Add a few words of credit or to describe it.
- Impacts Index Choose an impact from the menu on the right, then click Add Yours! You can also add a comment about how this site has changed you. This is very important. Click the box and let us know if you discovered this site through this map, too.
Login Please!
If you login, you will not need to add your name, email and spell out the "captcha" each time you add text or an image. If you have yet to create an account, click New Account on the right near the Login and fill in the quick form. Then if you login in when you return, you will save steps each time you add a comment or image.
Thank you! You can also do the following on this website:
- Suggest a Site At any map, click the Info tab on the right sidebar. Under Add to This Map, click "suggest a site". Fill in as much detail as possible and click Submit. The Mapmaker will review and approve your suggestion before it appears on the map.
- Join Map Team Some Mapmakers are seeking more team members. If you see "join team" under Add to This Map, click to let them know you would like to help. To otherwise contact them, click Mapmaker Profile.
- Donate Clink the link on the bottom of any page to support this project's continual development. Click Design Preview on the top bar to see what we'll be creating with your help
- Testimonial We'd love to add your praise to the page you can access by clicking More on the homepage's lower right, next to the Testimonials. Click Contact on the bottom line to send us yours!
- Create a new Open Green Map We welcome new project leaders, ready to dedicate time and teamwork to charting a sustainable future! Please register at GreenMap.org/join (not at OpenGreenMap.org) and let us know about your skills and community. This platform is among the many tools you will receive from Green Map System to help you organize your project and create printed, digital and/or Open Green Maps. The Participate section at GreenMap.org has all the details, including an FAQ for Mapmakers. If your community already has a Green Map project underway, contact them directly about getting involved.
Coming soon:
You will be able to add sites directly to the World View Map, starting in Spring 2009. There will also be web banners and other resources so you can help promote this participatory map making and exploring platform! Click Design Preview on the top right to see what's coming next – you'll be glad to see lines and areas, mobile phone, widgets and many other features are in the works.
Are you seeing the message "Javascript is required to view this map"?
The most likely problem is that your browser has an old version of the mapping script stored on it. You need to do what is called a "hard refresh" of the page. This is different on Windows and Macs.
On Windows press the 'Ctrl' and 'F5' keys at the same time
On a Mac press the 'Command' and 'Shift' and 'r' keys at the same time
The page should refresh and the map should load.
If this doesn't work, perhaps you have javascript disabled on your browser? Go to http://www.mediascape.com/clientdetect/cd1.html to check. If you have javascript turned off, turn it on! This is different for every browser, so search the internet for instructions on how to turn it on. Typically it is in the 'settings' or 'options' menu.
If none of this works, please contact us - make sure you tell us what browser you're using (e.g. Firefox 3, IE6, Chrome, etc), and what version, as well as what operating system (e.g. Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Mac OSX, etc).
(Preliminary version)
On every page, the top block contains the multilingual feature, the login fields for registered users and the About, Legal, FAQ, and Contact links. The next block contains the Interactive Map and its Directory. You can reach GreenMap.org by clicking the logo or link.
Multilingual feature:
By clicking on the top left links, you will be able to switch in to the different languages available for our interactive tool. Please contact us to help with this important effort.
Login:
Registered Green Mapmakers have full access to our resources and tools, including the Open Green Map where they can create social interactive maps. Soon, we will provide information about adding sites to the World View Open Green Map without full-scale registration.
A Green Map is a locally-made map that uses the universal Green Map® Icons to highlight the natural, social, cultural, and sustainable resources of a particular geographic area. Some Green Maps focus on beneficial natural and sustainability sites, while others include problems impacting community well-being, such as toxic hot spots and other sources of blight.
Each local Green Map has a unique design. It can take many years to go through the entire process of organizing and fundraising, researching, designing and publishing before finally disseminating a local Green Map. It can be comprehensive, thematic or connected to a specific event or season, and may published in different formats, including printed and digital, mural, and kiosk Green Maps. Some Green Mapmakers have published many editions to chart the progress toward sustainability in their community.
In order to reduce the technological and financial barriers to creating an online Green Map, we have developed the Open Green Map. It lets Mapmakers skip the design and distribution phases, and allows for almost instant publication, updating and sharing of the maps. Moreover, OGM adds a social networking component that was not possible before. The public can easily enrich the site's information with comments in any language, ratings, images and impacts. Much more is planned, too, including mobile access, onsite markers and more, so everyone will be able to get involved.
If you want to lead a Local Green Map project or create an Open Green Map, you must register. Find more here.
Coming soon: If you simply want to add a site to the Open Green Map, you can contact the Mapmaker in your area and suggest it (there's a link on each Open Green Map's Info tab) or add it yourself to the World View Map.
GreenMap.org is Green Map System’s gathering point for both the makers and users of Green Maps worldwide. Online since our program began in 1995, this website continually grows as new Mapmakers add profiles about their maps and their organizations' motivation for creating them. Many of the website's participatory mapmaking and collaboration features resources are not available to the public (but you can get an idea of the 100+ tools offered to all registered Green Mapmakers in the Resources section by clicking the arrows on the side.
The Open Green Map is an interactive mapmaking tool developed by Green Map System for Mapmakers worldwide to quickly share their own selection of sustainability sites, pathways and resources online. This social mapping website guides users to green living innovations, nature, culture and social sites, pathways and resources and displays the public's insights, images and impacts about each of these significant places. Open Green Map can also be accessed by clicking OpenGreenMap.org.