Key questions for long-distance inline skaters are: Where can I skate? and How is the road quality?
GeoSkating aims to automate the generation of interactive skate-maps by using GPS, mobile phones and internet.
While skating, GPS position data is collected and published to a server through a mobile phone. At the same time the skater can add road surface ratings (road quality is entered as a number (1-5) on the phone keypad) and submit pictures, songs, texts or videos. The server will draw maps showing road quality through colouring plus the submitted media on the GPS locations where they were captured. In addition, skaters can also be seen moving in real-time on the map while skating.
Developed by Just van den Broecke.
Via locative.
Comments
@ 04:47
Geoskating
It’s not as exciting as it sounds; it’s taking a GPS and cell phone when you rollerblade, and pushing data about your route (and its pavement quality) to a website. Don’t get me wrong, this is valuable. It’s just the beginning of tracking such data for th
@ 09:18
Copper Mountain offers something similar for their skiiers called Slope Tracker.