For the Masterclass “Value Based Management & GIS“, which includes a part about GIS for housing cooperatives, we have added some simple statistical information about neighbourhoods on the Micosoft Surface.
Technically the information is retrieved from a WMS, using a GetFeatureInfo request. Not really spectacular. But the interfacing of the Surface with real-life objects makes it very attractive and easy [...]
The municipality of Nijmegen maintains an RSS Feeder for information it publishes. Now it wants to provide a spatial selection service to local content providers and citizens. The information behind the RSS Feeder is not yet geocoded, so the service must try to extract the geographic location from the content of the published information.
Nijmegen started by [...]
The past three years we’ve been involved in the Tripod project. The goal of Tripod is to create new, easy, ways to find visual media. One of the approaches is to use the geographic metadata stored with pictures nowadays to figure out what is on that picture. Once you know what is on a picture, [...]
We created a control on the surface which allows the user to view 360° photos on the secondary screen. You place the control object on the map and it will load the nearest photo onto the secondary screen. When you rotate the object the view will rotate with it.
We created a short movie to show [...]
A few months ago we experimented with controlling the Surface with real objects. This was generally seen as a success and there was need for more objects. Our initial objects were real objects which we equipped with a Surface tag. However it was difficult to get objects which where more or less the right size [...]
The nationaal georegister (NGR) asked us to develop a simple way for third parties to use NGR’s catalogue service. NGR implemented geonetwork as their catalogue-software and it supports CSW v2.0.2. As such anyone or anything that talks CSW can already use NGR’s service. With CSW you can search the NGR database for online geo-information. This [...]
Influenced by Martijn, we use quite some OpenStreetMap data in various projects. We use it more and more as background maps for our web-applications, but also the raw data for analysis in projects like Tripod. We created a short movie to show off various strengths of OpenStreetMap and how/why we use it at Geodan Research.
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQs211GjAE
In the INSPIRE framework we are working on the ESDIN project and are using the EuroGeoNames (EGN) project as an implementation of ESDIN. INSPIRE is a big thing within the GIS world in Europe and loads of documents have been written so far.
We’re involved in both ESDIN and EGN and we decided to use the [...]
We’ve been experimenting with controlling applications on the Surface with tangible objects. Our first result is using a compass to change the orientation of the map. It uses the fiducial-tags which come with the Surface. If you place the compass on the Surface it recognizes it as a control device and takes the orientation from [...]