Month: November 2008

Wendy Brawer presented at GISMO’s November meeting. If you missed it, you can peruse the new website-in-progress at http://OpenGreenMap.org. There are over 2250 sites and the first 30 Open Green Maps to explore today. Click Design Preview on the top bar for the Slideshow or a 5 minute video about the project and some of the forthcoming features.

We welcome you all to add your email to our newsletter box on the homepage at http://GreenMap.org – then you will receive the invitation to this new interactive platform’s launch party in the Spring (you can review these monthly emails at http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/news/newsletters

Date: Wednesday November 12, 2008
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location:
Fund for the City of New York
121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor

Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap.org participatory website-in-progress and sharing the potential of this new new tool for inclusive participation in sustainable community development. Presenters include Thomas Turnbull, lead developer (using Drupal, Google Map and more), Carlos Martinez, Latin America Coordinator (managing interface translations and social network outreach) and Wendy Brawer, founding director. Now involving 500 diverse communities in 54 countries, the locally-led global Green Map movement continues to expand and impact our city and our world.

For more on the origins of Green Map & an interview with Wendy see: http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2006/04/18/sprinkle/

For directions to the fund, go to:
http://www.fcny.org/portal.php/fcny/directions/

Jack Eichenbaum posted a link to interesting cartograms covering the 2008 Election results:

Cartograms are maps where shape is rudimentarily maintained but traditional areas are distorted to represent another variable like population.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/