Baltimore Green Map website is launched!
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Baltimore Green Map introductory website at www.baltogreenmap.org. We are using 48 of the V3 icons and presenting all an opportunity to Nominate a Site. An...
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Baltimore Green Map announces debut of first print map
The Jones Falls Trail Green Map will make its debut at the Jones Falls Watershed Association's Rally for the River! festival on September 21st, 2008. Our map uses 30 Green Map icons to highlight...
View ArticleIs anyone planning summer youth projects?
(or winter if you are southern hemisphere....) Is anyone planning any youth mapping projects this summer and interested in doing an info exchange with some Baltimore 8-14 year-olds? I think it would be...
View ArticleEvent Mapping
As an experiment, we created the Baltimore Green Week 2009 map on the OGM. It used icons to describe the topic content of events rather than to describe places, then illustrated the geographic...
View ArticleCampus Green Mapping
Baltimore has a consortium of campuses involved in various collaborative efforts under the Baltimore Collegetown Network. Most local campuses have Sustainability Commissions these days, so we have...
View ArticleWhy do I Green Map?
Global Mapmakers, why do YOU Green Map?It's been almost ten years since I began collaborating with the Green Map System. Lately several people have asked me why I have been so passionate and persistent...
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Towson U Go Green Map wins Silver!
Great news from Jessica Ring, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design / Department of Art at Towson University and Green Map collaborator:“The Student Green Map won a Silver award in the Going Green...
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Mapping a Park to Increase Knowledge, Usage and Expand Stewardship
Our last map focused on resources in one city watershed and had an inset map of Druid Hill Park, the large central park within that Baltimore watershed. It is a 745-acre park filled with curvilinear...
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BGM at Federal Reserve Bank Richmond Conference on Data Mapping Tools
Baltimore Green Map was invited to present Green Mapping as an example of "How Communities are Using Mapping Tools" at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's October, 2011 Unleashing the Power of Local...
View ArticleUser Comments Enrich Our Maps!
Baltimore Green Map has had maps online via Open Green Map for several years now. Over 60 site nominations have come from map users suggesting other places that should be on the map. And we have...
View ArticleMapping Baltimore Green Week 2012
Green Events! Green Organizations! Green Collaborations! Baltimore Green Map is collaborating with Baltimore Green Works to map Baltimore Green Week 2012. (a plethora of "green") As many mapmakers...
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Druid Hill Park Passport - a Green Mapping Project on Kickstarter
Ever since we made the Druid Hill Park Green Map, I've been wanting to design a passport/activity to go along with it. Tonight I put the project up on Kickstarter, a crowd sourced funding platform. We...
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Baltimore Green Map Newsletter
Every so often we manage to publish a newsletter; Here's a link to the latest one: http://tinyurl.com/BGM-news-June2012Reminder to international community - I still hope to create some...
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Passport to Adventure via the Druid Hill Park Green Map
In 2010 we made a very popular Green Map for a major park in Baltimore, the Druid Hill Park Green Map. So many people admired it, but never went to the park that I was determined to make an...
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Engaging with Green Map Icons
With the Druid Hill Park Passport and mapping workshops, we are taking the Green Map icons off the map and onto new places: as stickers to show that a mapped park has really been explored and on the...
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Using Icons to Spur Conversations
Green Map Icons provide a great prompt to stimulate conversation about climate change issues on a national and even global scale! I just experienced that firsthand when, on January 31, I had the...
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