Timatio
A more sophisticated version of the bike_trails mashup: together with Alex I’m working on a platform where GPS enthusiasts can manage and share their GPS tracks. Still far away from a critical mass of users, it’s a good development process to go through.
‘geo’ URI
As co-author I joined Alex in the attempt of defining an URI scheme for geographic locations. The draft has been accepted and is currently discussed at the “Geographic Location/Privacy (geopriv)” IETF working group. Although it’s not a standard scheme yet, there are already some implementations around. In Android for instance, you can already use ‘geo’ URIs to open the map application and show a given location.
Maplay
An interesting experiment I developed together with Emanuel and Anthony: it’s a horizontal light projection showing thematic maps of Europe, where users can interact through the light by moving little game pieces around. The project has been featured in Cartography and Art (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).
ÖROK-Atlas
For 5 years I was part of the team and working group who created the atlas of the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning. The atlas is basically a regional information system targeted at user groups within public authorities. It’s focused on transferring knowledge and perceptions through authored and pre-defined maps and excellent cartographic exploration and visualization features. Noteworthy from a technical perspective is that the application is based exclusively on open source software.
geoblogger.eu
Inspired by Planet Geospatial, a great resource of geo-focused blogs, mostly U.S. though, I started this blog aggregator for Europe based bloggers. It should serve as index and help to connect like-minded people in that region. The language barrier – 23 official languages within the EU – is still something I need to work on in that project. Originally I built it on WordPress/MagpieRSS, with language categories enabled, but due to difficulties caused by the feed parser I recently migrated it to Planet Venus, the wonderful Python feed aggregator.
bike_trails
Another early mashup: one summer long I tracked all my bike rides with my GPS and plotted them on a map, mainly for fun and to see my bicycle range in the city. It uses the Google Maps API and holds geographic features in GPX format.
Vienna Underground Map
My first simple mashup, done it 2006: it draws subway lines and stations on a Google map and looks up photos on Flickr taken nearby the stations. It uses the Google Maps API, Flickr API and holds geographic features in a MySQL database.