AppsforGeo is a 5 hour long hackaton organized by Agoria and OKFN, where apps (web or mobile) are developed with a focus on Geodata in Open Data format. With 'Nostalgeo', the team of nazka & Ben Abelshausen won the 'Best App' award. 'Nostalgeo' is a web/mobile app to map old postcards and create a streetview of the past.

1. AppsforGeo
Vrij 26 April 2013
Han Tambuyzer | han@nazka.be
Ides Bauwens | ides@nazka.be
Ben Abelshausen
The Nostalgeeks Nostalgeo

2. Challenge| streetview in the past by postcards
• Use data on heritage
• Archive of the past
 Capture the past online

3. App | Presentation of the app

4. Concept| nostalgeo
• Make old heritage, protected buildings and landscapes known and
accessible to the public (tourists, villagers, ...)
• Archive and store all the postcards in a database by crowd-
sourcing
• desktop
• mobile
• CREATE and DO “Walkumentaries” by using the postcards
• Look at differences on older maps (Ferraris), orthos and compare
actual ‘streetview’ with the archived postcards

5. Kaart| Ferraris

6. Kaart| Ferraris

7. Open Data | to be integrated later
• Ferraris-data: only tile viewer – not open
• Old Aerial Images (Orthos)
• Streetview api
o Real situation view
• CRAB data for adressess
o Now geolocation based on mapbox but not very accurate
o Better routing and geolocation by AGIV CRAB data

8. Functionalities | to be integrated later
• Search on location and routes
• Add pictures on location by you smartphone
• Add and use “Walkumentaries”
• Shift view between different maps and pictures

9. nazka.be