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Interaktive Karte von www.geocaching.de. Unterstützt und gefördert durch die Deutsche Wanderjugend! Obere Karte zeigt Norddeutsche Geocaches.

Die Internetseite
www.geocaching.de ist eine Startseite für deutschsprachige Geocacher. Sie gibt eine Einführung in das Hobby Geocaching und beschäftigt sich mit spezifisch deutschen Geocaching-Aspekten. Diese Internetseite soll nicht die datenbankführenden Geocaching-Seiten wie z.B. Opencaching.de, Geocaching.com oder Navicache.com ersetzen, sondern durch seine interaktive Karte sinnvoll ergänzen. Es können direkt auf dieser Internetseite keine Caches angemeldet oder geloggt werden. Vielmehr soll diese Internetseite der aktiven deutschen Geocaching-Gemeinde eine Plattform bieten und helfen, dieses schöne Hobby auch in Deutschland weiter zu verbreiten. Viele Links zeigen auf die Originalseiten www.opencaching.de, sowie die englischsprachigen Internetseiten www.geocaching.com und www.navicache.com.

Utopischer Ansatz: Ein Kompass zeigt immer die Stelle in der Stadt an, an der man bei seiner Ankunft, mit einem entsprechend großen Radius, alleine wäre.

Je nachdem an welcher Stelle man sich in der Stadt befindet, leitet der Kompass (über seine RGB-LED-Matrix; vgl. Blogeintrag vom 02.März 2007) den Benutzer in die entsprechend schnellste Richtung aus der Stadt und bietet über unterschiedliche Farbcodierungen dafür auch unterschiedliche Routen an. Bspw (im Bezug zu Florian Boers “speed, reliability, comfort and pleasure“, vgl. Blogeintrag vom 28.März 2007):

rot => Notfallmodus (speed: schnellstmöglicher Weg raus aus der Stadt)
blau=> Bademodus (pleasure: Zielpunkt: nächster Badesee)
grün => Spaziergangsmodus (comfort: möglichst langer Weg)
gelb => Randommodus (reliability: Weg zu einem Punkt, der von anderen Benutzern als Geotag außerhalb der Stadt gesetzt wurde)

LAND INFO offers one of the world’s largest (250,000+ maps, 152+ countries) commercial archives of DRGs (Digital Raster Graphics — color scans with geo-referencing); this is the least-expensive format for digital topographic map data. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the advantages of MacGPS Pro is its ability to use digital maps and marine & aeronautical charts from a wide variety of sources. We have compiled a current sampling of digital images as a starting point to help you find the right one for your application. This is by no means an all inclusive list, but we will continue to monitor and update this list on a regular basis to serve as a resource for the GPS community. If you find an error or broken link in this list, please let us know so it can be updated. We value your feedback as our customer and will continue to strive to meet your needs. While some of these maps and charts are free for downloading, others are available for various fees. Some are supplied over the Internet; others are supplied on CDROM. As we have no affiliation with these organizations and have not verified that all maps from these sources are compatible with MacGPS Pro, it is the customer’s responsiblity to verify that any map purchased is in a format that MacGPS Pro can use. Maps in vector format will not work. Most raster maps in the following formats will work with MacGPS Pro: GeoTIFF, TIFF (TIF), JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PICT, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), SGI, TGA, PDF in OS X, and for Nautical Charts – NOS and BSB 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial or USB upload or download to a GPS receiver such as those from Garmin and Magellan. By flattening the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us, it returns to us the ability to freely move our own waypoint data between the programs and hardware we choose to use.

FlightTrack is free software. It is released with the source code under the terms of the GNU Public License. FlightTrack is a GPS utility designed exclusively for MacOS X. It can be used to download tracks and waypoints from a GPS and display them in 3D. Its main functions are: Read the rest of this entry »

The following graphics were created by GPS Visualizer’s profile generator by Adam Schneider.

Biking uphill and back down in Santa Cruz, California (elevation profile, colored by speed)

Sailplane flight over Hungary (elevation profile, colored by elevation)

via: gpsvisualizer by Adam Schneider

Here’s the summit of Mount Hood, as rendered by Google Earth:

A custom-made image overlay containing an USGS aerial photo at close to its maximum resolution of 1 meter per pixel:

The same view with a USGS topographic map overlay:

In Google Earth, you can adjust the opacity of overlays. Here’s the topo map at about 20% and the aerial photo at about 60%:

EveryTrail is an online platform that enables you to visualize your travel experiences and share these with fellow travelers from all over the world. With EveryTrail you can easily upload GPS data you recorded while out on a trip and add your photos and notes, to create a compelling, interactive, visual record of your travel experience. EveryTrail was created by a small group of passionate travelers, out of dissatisfaction with current solutions to share trips.

“We believe that the best way to share travel experiences is to integrate your stories, photos and locations on a map. The map then becomes the medium to share your travel experience. A picture may say more than a thousand words, but when you place that picture in its geographical context along your route, you express more about your trip than you could ever express with pictures and words alone.”

Comment by Felix: … and obviously to earn a lot of money with web2.0 …

4 easy steps to find your first Geocache from www.geocaching.com

Step 1 – Researching the Cache
Keep in mind that distances can be deceiving. When you’re using your GPS unit to find a cache, the unit only knows how close the site is as the crow flies (a direct line). You may be a mile from the cache, but there may be a river in the way, or a near-vertical climb involving 3 miles of switchbacks, or a mountain – you get the picture. Read the rest of this entry »

The Trimble® Geocache NavigatorTM is the first fully featured geocaching application for the mobile phone. The software combines the GPS that is built into your phone with your phone’s wireless data network to allow you to: Read the rest of this entry »

Via: wmmna

Net_Dérive, by Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck with the collaboration of Ali Momeni, is a location sensitive mobile media art piece that calls for an exchange between participants in the gallery and participants in the streets. Deployed on advanced mobile phones, the work seeks to create a kind of musical instrument, thinking of the city-as-instrument.

Participants are given a kind of scarf with a mobile phone in each end and off they go to explore the neighborhood. One of the phones takes pictures every 20 secs and collects sounds, the other talks to the GPS (also in the scarf) and to the server inside the gallery space. On a radar they can see themselves pictured as dots but also the images they’re taking. The sounds and pictures collected in the streets are sampled and mapped to a 3D city map in the gallery. As users are walking they can hear some voice instructions through a pair of headphones. Those comments suggest paths to follow or turns to make, they are generated and heard in a musical fashion. The voice instructions are inspired by the old Situationist games and theory of the Dérive – now brought into the digital and mobile spheres. As the user chooses to heed or ignore these instructions, a trace of his/her path is carved out in the city.

Urban Sonar was created by Kate Hartman, Kati London, and Sai Sriskandarajah, all of whom are Masters candidates in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

photo by Tracy Lee Carroll

Cities are crowded places. Ever since the industrial revolution, mass migration to urban spaces has led to increasing problems of overpopulation and related social disorders. On an individual level, overcrowding can lead to or exacerbate agoraphobia, part of a growing problem of general urban anxiety. Responses to this problem — lack of space, lack of privacy — vary, ranging from physical agility (navigating quickly through crowded spaces) to insensitivity (talking loudly on a mobile phone as if in the privacy of one’s own home) to outright violence. What these responses tend to have in common is an element of denial: the individual refuses to acknowledge and analyze the import of the restriction of her space.

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GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you’ve been, plan where you’re going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagging, etc.). GPS Visualizer can draw maps in SVG, JPEG/PNG, and Google Maps format, and can create map overlays and KML files for Google Earth. You can also draw profiles (of elevation, speed, etc.) in SVG or PNG format.

Different visualisations by www.gpsvisualizer.com/examples: Read the rest of this entry »

via Sascha Pohflepp and WMMNA

Left: Early attempt at creating a communal arousal surface. The peaks represent arousal hotpoints. Right: Communal arousal surface with name annotations.

Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own biometric data. Read the rest of this entry »