Green Maps are locally created environmentally themed maps which use a universal symbol set and mapmaking resources provided by the non-profit Green Map System. Over 675 locally-led map projects have successfully published more than 400 local Green Maps. A Green Map plots the locations of a community's natural, cultural and sustainable resources such as recycling centers, heritage sites, community gardens, toxic waste sites and socially conscious businesses.
The purpose of a Green Map is to serve as a guide for sustainable living and to help everyone get involved with their community’s natural and man-made environment. Green Map expects to help local citizens understand their community’s interdependent environmental, social and economic systems. Green Maps provide residents, newcomers and visitors a guide to local green options, they can also bring attention to the negative sites that challenge community well-being. Mapmakers share adaptable mapmaking resources and universal icons.
Project profiles, mapmaking resources, history and much more about Green Map System their award-winning iconography is at GreenMap.org.
Now, Green Map is taking their inclusiveness mission to the next level with the Open Green Map, an interactive mapmaking tool that helps people worldwide quickly share their own selection of sustainability sites, pathways and resources online. Merging local knowledge and freshly updated iconography with Google Map and open source Drupal technology, the resulting interactive maps can be explored here today.
