Category Archives: Walking

Digital Dowsing 0.1

It’s been around enough in my mind (actually since the Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit [SPS]) to finally talk about it here. A mash-up of the esoteric and the technological – my nascent Digital Dowsing project. My dowsing weapons of choice are … Continue reading

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Initial results from Crossing Paths in Leuven

We are very excited to be working with Stuk in Leuven, BE on a project that picks up where A Day in the Life, the Walkers of Birmingham left off. We’ve just received some data from some initial trials with … Continue reading

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A visit to the primary triangulation point of the Prussian spatial reference system

I arranged to meet Martin at Attilastrasse and was half an hour late, much to my shame. The strange park that the TP is in is called Marienhöhe. Martin puts it well. “I can remember previously dreaming of several features … Continue reading

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Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading

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Collaborative Map of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

By way of saying a huge thank you to the participants of my GPS workshop at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park this weekend, I put together all the tracks we made in QGIS and produced the collective map above. Maybe I … Continue reading

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