I talk to Wendy Brawer and Thomas Turnbull about the origins of Green Map System (greenmap.org) and what they to accomplish when they launch the Open Green Map (opengreenmap.org) in the coming months.
Green Map System energizes a diverse global movement of local mapmaking teams charting their community's natural, cultural and green living resources with our award-winning universal icons and adaptable multi-lingual resources. Explore hundreds of perspective-changing Green Maps created by local Map teams in 50 countries. Take part and support us as we chart a sustainable future!
绿地图系统以绘制绿色地图的方式，在世界各地掀起了形式多样的社区绿色运动。我们利用获奖的绿色环境地图图例、不同语言版本的网站和资源、工作坊以及我们的绿地图中心组织，在全世界50多个国家开展了绘制当地自然、社会和人文资源地图的热潮。绿地图系统诞生于1995年，由地方草根团体、非政府组织、学生、政府和旅游机构、绿色商业组织以及其它团体联合发展起来。目前，绿地图项目已经在成百上千的城市、乡村和社区中如火如荼的展开。不同年龄段的人们通过绿地图项目走到一起，共同探索、分享，致力于建立生机勃勃的可持续发展社区。
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. This website serves as a portal for users and developers to share their ideas and contribute to project development. As the Open Source Geospatial Foundation grows and changes, so will this website. Please check back often and sign up to the mailing lists to monitor developments. To get involved, check out the Getting Started page.
Placeblogs are sometimes called “hyperlocal sites” because some of them focus on news events and items that cover a particular neighborhood in great detail — and in particular, places that might be too physically small or sparsely populated to attract much traditional media coverage. Because of this, many people have associated them with the term “citizen journalism,” or journalism done by non-journalists. Placeblogs, however, are about something broader than news alone. They’re about the lived experience of a place. That experience may be news, or it may simply be about that part of our lives that isn’t news but creates the texture of our daily lives: our commute, where we eat, conversations with our neighbors, the irritations and delights of living in a particular place among particular people. However, when news happens in a community, placeblogs often cover those events in unique and nontraditional ways…
