][1] --   This article documents how to generate OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles for the Dutch RD (“Rijksdriehoeksmeting”) projection also known as EPSG:28992 . The steps described below can be used for other projections as well. I assume you are familiar with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. If not, there is ample …

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--   Last summer I participated in a full-day guided tour along the second world war (WWII) invasion beaches in Normandy, France. Specific subjects of the tour were Omaha Beach and places where events of “Easy Company” (E Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th IR , 101st Airborne Division, US Army) a.k.a. the Band of …

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--   Last week I attended the OSGeo Hacking event in Bolsena, Italy . For a week developers from various Free/Open Source Geo-projects (mostly OSGeo projects) get together in a monastry near Bolsena for code sprints, cross-project discussions, presentations, enjoying italian food and more fun. I have been working on …

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--   Tracking the 2008-edition of the Frisian Solar Challenge , a ‘World Cup for Solar Powered Boats’, with GeoSailing . See www.geosailing.com/fsc08 .  Below random images from the race. -- random image random image

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] -- On friday march 14, 2008 Mayor Job Cohen of Amsterdam was the first player of the GamesAtelier product that Waag Society launched. We at 7Scenes have worked hard to get the software done.  --  Links www.gamesatelier.nl Games Atelier officieel van start parool.nl  More photos here: …

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--    At Picnic 07 we held 2 workshops using our WalkAndPlay mobile gamekit (based on GeoTracing ). Here participants can Create, Play and View a GPS-based locative mobile game. Below is one of the results from the Picnic Junior Workshop for highschools . You may also want to view the high resolution movie .   This …

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During June 7-9, 2007 the Dutch Schuttevaerrace was covered live using Just Objects’ GeoTracing platform in combination with Falcom Mambo GPS/GPRS tracking devices attached onboard with 15 boats. I did …

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--    Waag Society held a Locative Media workshop @ Sarai Media lab, Delhi, India using GeoTracing . View the video for an impression.  

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Users create ‘bliins’ to navigate and monitor their interests in a location or area. bliins can be saved and shared amongst users. Another GeoTracing project: “bliin is a social networking service where users can spot, trace and share experiences — pictures, videos, audio and text — with one another in real-time on a …

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-- Sense of Brainport again a GeoTracing project was launched on September 21, 2006. During one week participants from Brainport were “geotracing” the region of Eindhoven/”Zuid Oost Brabant” with a mobile phone and a GPS. During the event they could be traced in real-time on the map . While tracing the tracers are …

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