Glasgow Green Map

From Electron Club, Glasgow

What to help cultivate this dear green place?

Working in partnership with the Electron Club, Radius Glasgow is developing a Glasgow ‘Green Map’.Green Maps are locally identify local cultural, social and environmental assets within communities; such as parks, recycling points, galleries, community centres and alternative transport routes. This will be one of 300 Green Mapping projects in development throughout the world, linked by Green Map Systems (GMS) a central support organisation based in New York. Check them out here: www.greenmap.org

Google based Green maps started to emerge a couple of years ago, with two of the best examples existing in Cork http://corkgreenmap.org/map/ and Dublin http://corkgreenmap.org/map/.

The Glasgow green map will be paper based and is due to be published in April 2007 under the brand name ‘Dear green place’; featuring charity shops, community recycling points and general reuse projects. This will be the starting point for the web based green map which launches in September 2007.The online Glasgow Green Map will be based on Google Maps and reside at ‘deargreenplace.net’. The aim is to produce an application that will become a valuable self sustaining community resource.

From February 2nd, Kevin Mcdonagh and Hannah Clinch (Radius Glasgow rep), are holding weekly Green Mapping workshops at the Electron Club(CCA Glasgow), Thursday 6:30 to 8:30 pm (tea and cakes provided). The first session being run as introduction to Green Mapping. Each meeting will provide Electron Club members and interested parties, opportunities to share in the development of the green map in a number of different ways.

Volunteers are asked to come along and learn and develop skills by trying out the green map for us and telling us their opinions. Also we’ll be showing how anyone can contribute to the green map and how they can personally benefit from it.

Another way people can join in is by learning how the green map is made in a series of Workshops developed alongside the actual green map. These will cover all sorts of web development techniques including graphic design, PHP programming, program design and deployment, interacting with web services and APIs along with the importance of good coding practices.

I’d like to get feed back from other Electron club members at every stage of the project. If you would like to know more about the project then please email me at hannah 'at' radiusglasgow.org

Meetings

We meet every Thursday from around 6:30pm in the Electron Club.