<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">> There seems to be a pattern there. I recently met someone who was active <br>> with <a target="_blank" href="http://greenmap.org">greenmap.org</a> which seems to be hardly more than a project <br>> collecting POIs based on Google maps ("OpenGreenMap"). They seem to <br>> regularly attract government funding for project meetings or printed <br>> maps of local areas. I saw one such map - it was a Google aerial image <br>> with a few POIs marked on top.<br><br>Just to defend Green Maps, the project is a whole lot more than OpenGreenMap.<br>They've been operating since 1995, originally all paper (and still predominantly
so),<br>and very much invested in community processes. For me at least, they were quite<br>influential in my getting involved in web mapping, prior to OSM being invented.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/about">http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/about</a></span><br><br>I agree that nowadays they'd be wise to adopting the OpenStreetMap infrastructure.<br>But do give them props, very cool, early folks in collaborative mapping.<br><br>-Mikel<br></div></div>
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