Green Map Platform

Our versatile mapping platform is designed for collaboration and ease of use. Quickly, you will have a great Green Map made for and with your community!

The Green Map Platform is designed for community mapmakers - it’s great for more complex projects too. The Platform enables people to work in a team to co-create, publish and distribute Green Maps digitally. It’s got great features, like import and export, add your own icons; see the list below. 

Unlike other online mapping platforms, ours is built as a resource for sustainable development, with communities, collaboration, and a shared mission to address climate change, environmental and justice challenges. Mapmakers can create data-collecting Surveys and invite wider participation, too. It's built upon our experience with our first mapping platform, Open Green Map (2009-2022), and its 41,000 featured sites are imported into this new Platform.

The Platform is free, flexible, and easy to use:

• Explore takes you directly to the maps made on the Platform. You can explore by the map, by the survey or by the icon.
• You can get started right now with our detailed Quick Start Guide or handy OnePager
• Our Blog has great examples of how the Platform has transformed the process of mapmaking and made the data useful and built local capacity at the same time.
• Resources includes the Quick Start Guide, Green Map Icon posters, our books, and lots more about the practice of Green Mapmaking - there’s an FAQ and more. 
• If you need help, there are monthly open office hours (generally on the first Wednesday at 11 ET), please check our social media to RSVP. Yes, it's free, like the Platform and our other tools (for non-commercial projects).
• Yes, you can help support the Platform with a subscription.
• Need advanced customisation, an app or bespoke design and training? The Platform team works with a range of fee paying clients including grant-funded community groups, networks and research projects creating outcomes like Grow Dundee, with its garden map, events, and volunteering; or Dig Venture’s global lighthouse mapping project.   

So much versatility!