4. Locally made Green Maps highlight natural, cultural, social
and green living sites using Green Map System’s global icons and tools
Over 500 unique Green Map® editions are published, including 15 in NYC
5. Green Map projects are led by community groups, NGOs, schools,
enterprises, tourism and city agencies - each with their own goals
6. Green Map’s award-winning icons identify, promote and link thousands
of ecological, cultural, social and green living sites
multi-lingual posters at GreenMap.org/icons
Barcelona’s Farmers & Robeson US’s
Sun Factory Artisans Market kayak tours
Yogyakarta ID’s Breda NL’s Hybrid
Geologic Feature Eco Center Vehicles
7. We share adaptable tools and offer support, consulting and strategies
for printed, interactive and other types of Green Maps
Icons: I70 icons guide the selection of and then highlight each sustainable site
Mapmaking Guides: Stakeholder engagement, research, design, marketing, etc.
Multimedia Resources: Multilingual websites, books, workshops, videos
Archives: Green Maps, stories, exhibits, presentations and exchanges
8. Open Green Map is our interactive ‘social mapping’ platform – it’s
used online, on mobile phones and as embedded maps using widgets
18,000 sites
220 maps
8 language interface
9. Green Map System has received national and international
awards in addition to those won by local Green Map projects
Victor J Papanek Social Design Award – Open Green Map’s awards
Design for the Real World Redux 2011
Treehugger Best of Green
US National Sustainability Award: Living Labs Global
New Communications Tools
INDEX Awards Finalist
United Nations Global Best Practices 100 Cause / Affect
The Tech Awards Laureate Tele Atlas Maps in Apps
NetSquared
Spirit of the Land - Salt Lake City Olympics
We Media Pitch It
EXPO 2000 Project Award the World
10. Open Green Maps can be created with public site suggestions
and contributions of images, videos, ratings, and more
Open Green Map:
Development
• lowers technological and financial barriers to online mapping
• preserves valuable community organizing and dissemination
• increases public participation, exchange and impacts
• make content sharable and
useful in different ways
Drupal, Google Map,
Green Map Icons &
Local Knowledge
11. Register at GreenMap.org/join to create a new Open Green Map with a
theme, neighborhood or cultural focus
Export – CSV or KML
12. Any smartphone user can explore the sites or suggest new ones –
there’s a Green Map iPhone App and embedded widgets
Currently in ‘beta’. Let’s work together to
make a NYC mobile app and/or improve
our current
13. We’d love to mash a Green NYC App that includes our 900 sites and
print map PDF with your data
14. Let’s work together to develop an on-the-street marker system for
local sites that meet Green Map criteria
15. 500 Green Maps plus education and outreach tools created worldwide will
be Archived in NYC. There’s a digital component we can co-create
Users: planners, travelers,
entrepreneurs, students, etc
16. Involve the next gen – make the community the classroom.
Teachers disk, energy modules – GreenMap.org/youth
17. We have worked directly with NYU, Parson, Pace, Columbia – perhaps
there is a new kind of higher ed tool we can co-develop
