The Internet offers exiciting possibilities for engaging people with maps and data about places.

When you need to:

• Use web mapping to quickly expand geographic awareness of your programs and projects, for the general public, funders, or internal stakeholders
• Help people find place-based information about facilities or services available in their area
• Allow your users to create custom map views and on-the-fly reports
• Communicate a story about changes in a landscape (demographics or natural landscapes)
• Connect with other web mapping services, like Google Earth, Yahoo Maps or Microsoft Live Local

GreenInfo Network can help by providing these web-mapping services:

• Map images for your web site (example at top right) - with clickable "hotspots" that enlarge a view or pop up an information box
• Google Earth applications where we create special files (KMLs or KMZs) that users can download from the web or be sent them through email - these files then display inside Google Earth. LEARN MORE about how we can help you with Google Earth..
• Interactive maps with rollover-effects using Flash and similar technology, including animated time-series maps
• Full Internet mapping applications, from simple geo-browsers to robust data managers - we focus on simple to use and limited-purpose applications as we've found that few people will spend a lot of time online with a complex Internet map application
• Web database integration, including geographic data collection via online surveys and linkage to GIS projects
• Applications for other web mapping providers, inclulding ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer, Yahoo Maps and Microsoft Local Live

Examples of our Internet Mapping applications include:

• ParkInfo - a one-stop portal to all public recreation and open space opportunities in California (at right - see here for more details on ParkInfo)
• The United Way of the Bay Area - an element in their Data Centra, which shows high poverty neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area and displays statistics about each of these areas, including grants, schools and demographics (at right)
• Use of Google Earth to display proposed sell-offs of land by the U.S. Forest Service. Learn more about our extensive Google Earth experience....

Other examples include these applications built for internal use by the following groups:

• California Land Trust Council - mapping application that shows the "spheres of influence" of each land trust in California, allowing queries and reports on lands saved within each area, and tracking of overlapping organizations or areas where no organization is active
• Earth Island Institute - mapping application tracks grants make by the organization, allowing staff to input new grants easily and show geographic relationships between grants