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Paris is a city where the Green Map project did not 'gel' and there was no published edition, as far as we know. Then, we had a policy of one Green Map project per city to reduce confusion and rivalries. There were two parties who wanted to get Paris rolling,  and our nonprofit introduced them and encouraged them to work together. Alas, their goals were too different and both moved on to other projects.  We learned to match people carefully, and eventually ended that exclusive policy.  

Charting Forgotten Spaces: This particular project was in some ways an outlier for Green Map – set in a Catholic Church on a block of Harlem (East 129th Street) which the NY Times had designated as the “most hopeless” in all of New York City and investigated by young people who were hoping that their findings would inspire some accelerated positive change in a neighborhood which had not experienced much of that in their short lifetimes.

Example: In the early days of Green Map, there was an interested Kenyan that did not create a Green Map, but he helped us understand how much harder it would be to make maps where there were few resources. In the era of the 'world wide wait' it was easy to mail a disk with the icon font, and some graphics, but could they be used locally everywhere? 

Example: Since there have been Green Map projects on all the other continents, we really would like someone in Antarctica to create a map. Some years ago, a researcher heading there for a few months was interested, so there was a glimmer of hope. What could they map? Habitat, views, shared resources, etc.