Icons for Mapping Community Sustainability

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Summary

Green Map Icons are a universal language for identifying environmental and cultural resources. Help local mapmakers foster sustainable living by updating this lexicon and a multilingual icon database. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $268 was raised for this project.

Received $268 from 4 donations from people like:

Doreen
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Green Map is updating its award-winning Icons. The world’s only universal iconography for use on maps, these 125 symbols are already helping more than 400 communities in 50 countries highlight sustainable living resources and address ecological and cultural issues on locally-made Green Maps. Update process is collaborative, and will result in a more current and effective shared set of Icons, reflecting the diversity of all participating communities, today and in the future.

Activities

Our worldwide mapmaker network is involved in the updating process. With their help, we will design new/revised Icons, create digital icon fonts, translate definitions and provide multi-lingual database/digital posters and public awareness materials.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $268

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $268.  The original project funding goal was $27,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Updated Icons will extend our ability to spur local action for a greener future, benefiting many more communities. We will distribute Green Map Icon resources in both printed and digital formats, making extra effort to reach under-served communities.

Project Message

Green Map Icons are the heart of the Green Map movement, guiding both map makers and users to discover and work for hometown wellbeing in the most accessible manner.
- Wendy E. Brawer, Founding Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Wendy E. Brawer,
Founding Director & Secretary
175 Rivington St. #1D (mailing)
220A East 4th Street (location)
New York, NY 10009
United States
1 212 674 1631
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Project Sponsor

The Tech Museum Awards

Organization

Green Map System Logo Green Map System
220A East 4th Street
(perm-175 Rivington 1D, NYC 10002)
New York, NY 10009
United States
1 212 674 1631
http://www.greenmap.org

Learn more about Green Map System and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Technology.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 06, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 25, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Final Progress report: Icons for Mapping Community Sustainability

By Wendy Brawer - Founding Director & Secretary, August 06, 2008 05:59 PM

With your generous support we were able to finalize our set of 170 Green Map Icons in February 2008. Version 3 of this award-winning iconography reflect an inclusive process initiated five years ago at Italy’s Bellagio Centre during our first Global Green Mapmakers Gathering. Icon designs, titles and usage were discussed online and in meetings within our network of over 450 diverse Green Map projects in 50 countries. We reviewed how these globally designed universal icons have been utilized on outreach and education materials in addition to printed, digital, workshop and classroom maps since 1995. We also took into account the urban and rural ‘local icons’ created to enrich Version 2. As we moved toward the final phase, we invited the public’s input through our Icon Open Studio, both online and in NYC, to guarantee that this collaboration would create the best possible results.

In Version 3 we created our own icon 'pattern language' to guide design choices. We refined the iconography's twelve categories and extended the set with more climate change, activism, justice, green enterprise, technology, outdoor activities and indoor greening icons. To aid navigation, we also added public works and landmarks.

At GreenMap.org/icons, you can download the Icon Poster, definitions, slideshow and more. This updated set has been honored by and exhibited at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, adding to Green Map System's list of awards, which include 1996’s Gold International Eco-Award, 1999’s US National Award for Sustainability, 2001 Technology Benefiting Humanity Laureate, and 2007’s US EPA Environmental Quality Award to name a few. Version 3 icons will be used in the interactive social mapping platform, the Open Green Map (debuting in Fall 2008). Additionally, locations such as Santiago, Bucharest, and Baltimore are among the first to have published Green Maps with this new iconography.

Our thanks to all participants and supporters over the past five years!

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