Clean Up Australia Day 2009 and MyMaps

Guest post by Angela Mayer, Marketing and Communications for Clean Up Australia

Clean Up Australia Day, the flagship event of Clean Up Australia, takes place on the first Sunday in March each year. On Sunday March 1 we saw about 630,000 volunteers take to their streets, waterways, beaches, parks and bushland to pick up rubbish - collecting nearly 8,300 tonnes of it.

This year we used some of the latest technology to showcase the great work our volunteers were doing to all the other members of Clean Up the World. As the Clean Up Australia bus, with our chairman Ian Kiernan AO and other VIPs on board, visited Clean Up locations around Sydney, we used a MyMap on Google Maps to pinpoint the locations and show photos of the great work done by the volunteers there.


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We did this all via the MyMaps Editor on the new Google-powered HTC Dream phone - allowing us to take photos of our volunteers and upload them to our MyMap as the Clean Up took place.

As a member of Clean Up the World, we were also able to showcase our activities on their global map.

It was a great example of how technology can be used to share the achievements of volunteers with others around the country and around the world. We hope that more members of Clean Up the World discover this feature and use it to showcase their green activities on the Clean Up the World activities website.