Do you know your region?
The GeoGame gives you the opportunity to show your knowledge internet-wide. Your task is to locate several displayed photos on the interactive map with the smallest possible error measured by the distance between marked and correct position.
Geo-game was designed as application for common web-site visitor, who wants to check his/her knowledge of this north bohemian region. The web page is split into two parts: in the left part, some phenomenon photographs, such as natural monument (cave, rock, lake, ...) or human imprint (church, castle, ...) are shown and in the right part, interactive map of Liberec region is displayed and user has to place marker on the position, he/she things, the phenomenon is located. Then the right location is displayed together with user set location and geographical distance is between set and real position is calculated. The users have to place up to ten marks and at the end, mean value of distances between reality and users guess. User can then store his/her name into table of best results.
How to play
Open the web address and select your game from the list. Then you will see a photo that you should identify and locate in the map window on the right side. You can zoom and shift the map as you need and click the position you consider to be the best. The red marker shows you the selected position, the green marker the correct one. Then go for next photo. After the 10th answer, you get the result expressed by total distance between your and correct positions. You can enter your name and be listed in the result rank.
For advanced users
The administration module enables advanced users to set up their own games. You can upload your photos, describe them, mark the “correct” position and finally publish the game for internet gamblers. You will need the authorized access to the server to create your own games.
Geogame editing allows to users store their own photos with description
Provide positioning of photos and definition of games from stored photos
Types of games
Celebrities
Do you know this face? Do you know where he lived? Do you know where that place is? Then it is simple...
Castles on historical documents
It is easy to recognize castle in it’s present appearance. But couple hundred years ago it looked very different. It makes this game explorative and full of surprises.
Nature phenomena
Both famous and hidden treasures of our nature are hidden in this game. Spending your holidays out of city helps a lot.
ON-LINE AVAILABLE AT http://geogame.kraj-lbc.cz
GeoGame on FACEBOOK
2011-08-26
Co-funded by the European Community.
Views expressed in this site/presentation are those of the individuals, partners and the consortium and do not represent the opinion of the Community. The Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.
2010-10-06
Competition in developing geogames - Walking in the maps! - is here again!
Do you have nice photos or videos from your wanderings? Make some interesting geogame! You make happy known and unknown Internet users. And you can win competition "Walking the maps" of the great prizes!
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The METASCHOOL project aims to improve the in-service training of school teachers and school ICT staff on topics related to the organisation, sharing, use and re-use of digital learning resources that can be accessed online through learning repositories. The overall objective of the project is not only to improve teacher practice, but also to raise the awareness of teachers across Europe on the need for accurate tagging of resources. It achieves this through a user-friendly approach that motivates teachers to quickly and easily add metadata to resources that they have both used and created. Czech use case is focused on support for training of Web 2.0 technologies and geospatial technologies on basic and secondary schools. For Web 2.0 technologies is main focus on active using Wiki based principles. For geospatial technologies there are two selected cases. First use case is focused on utilization of GeoGame for educational purposes. Second use case is focused on utilization of GeoPortal technology for access to offer access to teachers and students to public geospatial data from different Czech institutions and governmental bodies and also offer tools for managing, visualization and analysis of geospatial data.
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