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GPS: Amsterdam Realtime

http://realtime.waag.org/


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Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: 'Society for old en new Media', de Waag
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, Quicktime required to view time-lapse
Language: English
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You can see still pictures here:  http://realtime.waag.org/images/kaarten/

  • Q: What's the fuzz about ? I don't get it.
    A: This site is just a supportive part of the project. The main experience could be had in front of a big high resolution projection in an Amsterdam exhibition on cartography. This is where the participants (with a minimum of background information) could be seen moving about live, in real time.
  • Q: So why is that cool ? I can save my GPS-data using a Garmin/any GPS handset and run it through Photoshop...
    A: Because the mobile device we constructed sent its data to our server using a GPRS Internet connection, so all the visualisations were done live.


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