Author Archives: Daniel Belasco Rogers

Excursion in Gleisdreieck Park with Martin

At last, after a record dark start to 2013, Berlin is waking up to bright, clear mornings and the smell and sounds of Spring. Martin and I decided that we would have an excursion together today, after a long gap. … Continue reading

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Personal Data Mountain – coding strategies

While Soph and I were working last week at the HZT on plan b stuff again at last, we were thinking about the data we collect i.e. GPS, text messages, mood reports (for 2011 only) and photographs. We were preparing … Continue reading

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The problems with representing GPX tracks in spatial databases

This is something I’ve been wrestling with for a while, both with Spatialite and latterly with Postgis. The problems stem from the fact that a GPX track segment contains information that can be represented in two entirely different ways in … Continue reading

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My Life as a Birch Forest

The image above is from the Jacquard Loom series (see here and here), using my python script to read a year’s worth of data from our GPS records and plugging in Peter’s processing script, the strips were produced, showing GPS … Continue reading

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Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation II

After meeting up with Peter at Martin’s micro_blackdeath ATmega noise workshop at NK on Saturday, we were able to talk a bit more about what I’m calling the Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation of the activity in our database. The python … Continue reading

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