Strengthening local culture through the Internet.

GeoMotion was founded with the intent of developing the cultural assets of local communities. We build tools to help sustain cultural diversity, based on the idea that local culture is an asset of increasing value in today's global economy.

We have pioneered the idea of a "shared community resource" that allows local businesses to work together:

• Local businesses host an online community through their own websites under their own identity. Everyone works together to draw traffic to the virtual community;
• Local businesses sell through their own integrated "real estate" within the virtual space.

The GeoMotion community draws on some of the same features that make real communities successful.

Statement of Purpose.

To help people achieve growth
within the framework of their local cultures
by providing the strategy and tools
needed to develop cultural assets
into specialty products for global markets. read more...

History

Our company grew out of the Project Athena research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of our significant milestones:

1998	"ticketplease" was GeoMotion's first publication. ticketplease was to be an online magazine of culture and travel based on the idea that stories could be presented through virtual tour technology.
1999	Loon Mountain ski resort, our first client, added Geo360 a virtual tour to its website. Production began on "Virtual Sonesta", for Sonesta International Hotels and Resorts. Photography was completed in Bermuda, Tuscany, Anguilla, New Orleans, Miami, Egypt, and Peru over the next 5 months.
2000	Virtual Sonesta was launched with tours of 23 properties. This was the first database-driven virtual tour system, which supplemented hotel tours with GeoDG Destination Guides.
2001	GeoPost Version 1 let visitors send "virtual postcards" to family and friends.
2002	GeoPost Version 2, let members upload mailing lists and send targeted emails. Production began on "Virtual Rwanda," GeoMotion's first virtual tour and destination guide for an entire country, sponsored by the Rwandan Office of Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN).
2003	Virtual Rwanda is launched at the World Travel Market in London at the official "Relaunch of Rwanda Tourism."
2004	GeoCatalog Version 1 is used to catalog orchids of the Nyungwe rainforest and the Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda. The first demonstrations of eCommerce360 are tested. GeoMotion begins working in specialty coffee, aiming at a multi-sector marketing program for Rwanda. GeoPost Version 3 adds html email to support newsletters. BoothCreek resorts, parent of Loon Mountain, uses GeoMotion technology to produce interactive trail maps with print-on-demand PDF output for daily grooming maps.
2005	Rwandacafe.com is launched for the Rwanda Office of Coffee Industries (OCIR), bringing the GeoMotion marketing tools to bear on the largest of Rwanda's export market sectors. The new GeoMuse/SWF viewer is developed and launched to supplement GeoMotion's older Java-based display system. This allows any browser with Flash capability to view GeoMotion resources.
2006	Signature Coffees of Rwanda: OCIR expands its virtual tour program to include 26 coffee washing stations. The OCIR-CAFE US Update monthly newsletter is launched using GeoPost to produce and deliver information to 500 specialty coffee importers and roasters in the U.S. BoothCreek expands its print-on-demand trail maps to include Sierra-at-Tahoe, Northstar-at-Tahoe, Summit at Snoqualmie, Loon Mountain, and Waterville Valley. E3: GeoMotion creates a virtual tour of the Electronic Entertainment Exhibition in Los Angeles using the new GeoMuse/SWF system. Maps of the show floor and 50 panoramic views are produced and put online in 3 days. Vpro: GeoMotion provides the technology for Vpro, Inc., to take 360-degree photos of vehicles. Vpro undertakes pilot testing with Adesa Inc., the second largest vehicle auction company in the U.S.
2007	GeoTrace: Through the early part of the year we developed and tested GeoTrace, a bar code tracking system for coffee. Working with the Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative in Rwanda, we pilot tested the system with 8 coffee washing stations of the Misozi Group. GeoCO2: In September we picked up the pace on GeoCO2, our community-based program designed to help package and sell carbon credit resources in Rwanda; GeoCO2 is scheduled for launch in January. Geo E+: And we laid the groundwork for the Geo E+ Certification regime. We needed a way to certify the carbon-neutral products of the GeoCO2 programs. Old Friends: Vpro moves to full pilot test with Adesa, North America; Sonesta, Boothcreek, and Loon Mountain move to the GeoMuse/SWF technology.

Our Internet-based marketing using virtual reality technology. We have a solid basis of 15 years experience in this field, with Photo-VR tours all over the world including the underground particle detectors at CERN in Switzerland, the open waters of Penobscot Bay in Maine, the back bowls of Vail, and the streets of Boston, Beijing, Washington, Paris, Geneva, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Cairo, Florence, New Orleans, and New York.

Recent Projects

OCIR-CAFÉ Signature Coffees of Rwanda. GeoMotion developed a comprehensive marketing program for the Coffee Board (OCIR-CAF ) of the Republic of Rwanda. This project involved concept development, implementation of all Internet resources, and management of tasting events in major U.S. markets and of the major coffee exhibition in Seattle. The Internet incorporates all of the technologies included in the present proposal. Available at www.rwandacafe.com since September 1, 2005.

Boothcreek Resorts Interactive Trail Maps. GeoMotion developed a print-on-demand interactive ski trail map for Boothcreek Resorts. This map accesses a remote database to determine trail status at the time of printing. It is printed each morning to show skiers which trails are open and freshly groomed. The map uses GeoMotion.s dynamic graphic elements to update the map symbols at the time the map is printed.

ORTPN GeoRwanda. GeoMotion developed a comprehensive online marketing solution for the Republic of Rwanda, through the Office Rwandaise de Tourisme et Parcs Nationaux. This project incorporates all of the technologies included in the present proposal. Available at www.rwandatourism.com since November, 2003.

Sonesta International Hotels and Resorts Sonesta Tours. GeoMotion has developed for the Sonesta International Hotels and Resorts group the most advanced system of virtual tours implemented to date. This project represents 25 properties worldwide with shareable virtual tours supplemented by a complete set of online marketing tools and GeoMotion destination guides. Sonesta has found the GeoPost tool to be so effective in their marketing efforts that they have elevated it to the status of .Corporate Best Practice.. In operation since June, 2000.