-- 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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--   Sense of the City the latest GeoTracing project was launched on april 21, 2006. During the last week of april 2006, ten civilians are “geotracing” the Dutch city of Eindhoven with a mobile phone and a GPS. During the event they can be traced in real-time on the map . While tracing the tracers are posting photos …

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Again I had the opportunity to do a fun and technically challenging geo-project using my GeoTracing platform: developing a GPS-based mobile drawing game for the Amsterdam Museum Night . Teams would go into the city where they compete on who would (geo)draw the most beautiful “8” by walking with a GPS and a mobile …

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(The quick link for my experiments is www.geoskating.com/gmap .) Just a week ago I learned about the Google Maps JavaScript API . Surprising how easy it was to use and build upon. Especially for my GeoSkating project I needed a more flexible way to display routes and media on a map. So I started experimenting with the …

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(The quick link for my experiments is www.geoskating.com/gmap ) Just a week ago I learned about the Google Maps JavaScript API . Surprising how easy it was to use and build upon. Especially for my GeoSkating project I needed a more flexible way to display routes and media on a map. So I started experimenting with the …

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--   Opened an experimental site for GeoSailing to cover the 24 Uurs Zeilrace , the largest Dutch annual sailing event. Some 800 ships are competing on the IJsselmeer, Markermeer and Waddenzee to cover as many miles as possible within a 24 hour period. This event is held on August 26 and 27, 2005. One of the …

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News travels fast on the Net. My website for the mobile GPS project GeoSkating went from 10s to 1000s of visitors a day when it entered the international blogsphere and the Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant . On Google “geoskating” went from 10 hits to 16900 in a week. . I want to thank everyone for their …

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GeoSkating is my latest project started in february 2005. GeoSkating aims to automate the generation of interactive annotated skate-maps by using the Global Positioning System (GPS), Mobile Phones and the Internet. The key idea is that while skating, GPS position data is being assembled and published to a server …

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Since Mac OS X is already my preferred platform for Java development, I was very pleased to experience that J2ME development for MIDP 2.0 has finally become reality. I can now develop, compile, verify, package, run, debug and deploy MIDP 2.0 MIDlets from within my Java IDE (IntelliJ IDEA ). All thanks to Michael Powers …

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Frequency 1550 is a multi-user city game using mobile phones and GPS-technology. The game provides a real-time, location-based experience, transporting players into medieval Amsterdam of 1550 via today’s most advanced personal medium: a UMTS mobile phone. It is the one of the most exciting projects I ever worked on!F …

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