Just Objects – Open Geospatial Services

December 2011 - OSGeo Dutch Chapter established

Map5.nl

Web map services for these beautiful Dutch topographic maps from now (OpenTopo) and then (Bonne/TMK). See https://map5.nl...

GeoSailing

Building GPS tracking apps already back in 2005. This resulted in several advanced and exciting/fun projects like tracking the Schuttevaer Sailing Race in 2008 in collaboration with GeoSports.

Sensor Web and Internet of Things

Working since 2014 on Sensor Web projects with Geonovum, Kadaster, RIVM and 52North. This is about unlocking Dutch Air Quality data using the OGC Sensor Web and its standards like WMS-Time, WFS, SOS and SensorThings API. More: http://data.smartemission.nl

December 2011 - OSGeo Dutch Chapter established

At the GIN-conference in Utrecht we decided that now was the time to establish a Dutch Language Local OSGeo Chapter. This was the beginning of the OSGeo.nl Foundation legally established in 2013 that I now (2018) chair. See https://osgeo.nl

OpenTopo maps by Jan Willem van Aalst

Proud to contribute to these maps made with OpenStreetMap and Dutch Open Data like Top10NL and BAG. Data transformation with NLExtract and Stetl and helped organizing OpenTopo workshops with OSGeo.nl. Maps available via map5.nl.

Geospatial IT with Free & Open Source

Just Objects B.V. is the trading name for the professional activities of Just van den Broecke. You can find Just's CV here. Services include: consultancy, training, development, hosting and maintenance, all in the domain of Open Geospatial Information Technology. Just Objects is a member of the Dutch OpenGeoGroep. Just is an OSGeo Charter member and chair of the OSGeo.nl Foundation, the Dutch Language Chapter of OSGeo.org.

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August 13, 2020

Klikkers en Tikkers (quoted from @geogoeroe) , translated Clickers and, well "Keyboarders" (?). Keyboard/commandline matters? Long essay, but very good/humorful read, be convinced. In The Beginning Was The Command Line by the great Neil Stephenson: http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html

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August 13, 2020

Leuk om zoekend naar "wandeling Dinkel" http://map5.nl OpenTopo kaarten tegen te komen op http://wandelnet.nl met keurige bronvermelding. #geonl #osgeonl

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Cheers to 2019

Overview of my professional life in 2019. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018, my personal highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl|org)-world in 2019.

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Cheers to 2018

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