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Baltimore is one of over 740 locales that have engaged with the international Green Map® System. Mapmaking teams pair GMS's adaptable tools and universal iconography with local knowledge and leadership to share green living, ecological, social and cultural resources.
There are garbage maps, energy maps, bicycle maps, heritage preservation maps, and many, many more. There are paper maps and on-line interactive maps, hand-drawn maps and sophisticated, graphically elegant renditions. What do they all have in common? - a concern for the health of our planet and for the preservation and enhancement of unique local resources.
People around the world are using the GMS icons
to chart sustainability at every scale from a neighborhood
park to a province. They are creating perspective-changing
community ‘portraits’ that act as practical
guides for residents and tourists, as comprehensive
inventories for decision-making, and as benchmarks
for measuring progress. |
