Casa Robino

Manu and me visited Amsterdam to go to the 'State of the Map'-conference, about the OpenStreetMap. If you've never heard about OpenStreetMap, I will tell you a little about it: Basically the OpenStreetMap is to maps, what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias; a community-based project to collect geographic information like streets, parks, pubs - everything which might be interesting. The level of detail can be very high, e.g. the zoos in Berlin and Amsterdam even show the areas of the various animals. Even more interesting is what people make of the data - specialized maps for cycling, skiing, public transportation; routing for cars, cycling and walking; applications for mobile devices like the iPhone; a browser for the data (my project); or you can make a cake out of it.
The conference lasted three days - Friday, the "Business day" and Saturday/Sunday the "community days". Lot's of talks, space for networking - and many male nerds :/
The best thing of the weekend (beside staying in CasaRobino) was the squat sauna Fenomeen - it was just great to relax there.