Category Archives: Walking

What GPS to use

This is a follow up to this post ages ago outlining the technical aspects of our GPS data collection for those that might want to do something similar. What GPS? As mentioned in that earlier article, Sophia and I now … Continue reading

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Speed Map of Berlin

I’ve been experimenting with Mathieu Baudier’s PostgreSQL / PostGIS importer for our tracks (I’ll write about this later soon) and visualising my database of tracks in QGIS. Many possibilities become available. Mathieu’s importer calculates speed for every vector in the … Continue reading

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Walk with Martin in Albrechtshof

A shorter walk than last time but still very enjoyable – a hot, sunny day, the meadow where Berlin ends was glorious in the summer, the last time I was here I was with Steven Hodge in the winter. Lots … Continue reading

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A Voyage with my Father

Between 28 and 30 May, I finally took my Dad away for a weekend to Suffolk and Norfolk. I had been meaning to do this for over a year. I hired a car, booked two rooms in the Crown Hotel, … Continue reading

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More Kiel Outcomes

Ines Lindner, myself and the students at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule were very impressed by the animation we all made together, with the week’s collected traces and Peter Vasil’s openFrameworks animation he wrote for us. Here’s a quick video hacked together. … Continue reading

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