Welcome aboard! Bargewiki is dedicated to inland navigation at large, with a special focus on barges and historical heritage. The site is operated by volunteers from i-iter and dba. Special thanks to David Beaumont and Chris Moss, who both actively support the integration among this site and various pre-existing on-line utilities.
Bargewiki can now be accessed by any WAP phone at the address http://bargewap.i-iter.mobi. The same address can also be used in normal browsers to reduce bandwidth consumption when connecting from a mobile phone.

Mooring Guides of the Future


You should see above an example screen shot from a barging 'path' viewed in Google Earth

This articles introduces some thoughts and examples of what the DBA moorings guide may look like in the future. The picture above is actually just a still from a moving image sequence I've created of a short sample trip down the Seine. If you have Broadband click on either of the links below to view the movie:

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Cormorant - soon to be re-named Neeltje

Cormorant - soon to be re-named Neeltje

Bargewiki by numbers (Apr-May 2007)

We are one and half month old, it's a bit early to boast any stable result and I will provide the following figures (relative to the period Apr, 13 to May, 31) without any comment. Updates will be published monthly.

General traffic

  • Average: 7.13 P/V
  • Visits: 926
  • Pageviews: 6,603

Worldwide access map (the accesses of the administrators have been filtered away)


Can we have a WYSIWYG interface? (like in Word processors?)

We do have it! Under text forms you always find an enable rich-text link. Just click on it and there you are. Be aware that when copying text from a word processor you are most likely to have lots of junk in it (stuff like fonts, etc). To avoid that use the Paste from Word icon. It will open a small popup window and make sure that all the unnecessary stuff gets filtered away.


Maps: can we help ourselves?

It's a good question. Maps and navigation software aren't the most expensive things on earth, yet it's still unclear to me why should one pay to obtain what in principle ought to be absolutely public information. There also is a far more worrying reason: since there is no other way to prove that you have been copying, commercial chart publishers DO insert false information in what they publish (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs).


Ebenhaezer

Ebenhaezer

Ebenhaezer

Ebenhaezer

Ebenhaezer afloat

Ebenhaezer afloat

A. S. B. Ebenhaëzer images


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