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Category Archives: Diary
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
Posted in Diary, GPS, Software
Tagged data, gis, gpx, PostGIS, QGIS, QuantumGIS, Spatialite, visualisation
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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
Posted in Code, Diary, GPS, Linux, Python, Software
Tagged data, logging, processing, psychogeography, visualisation
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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
A new way of looking at the GPS traces
After meeting Peter today, I decided to finally look at the alpha setting on his openframeworks application we use for lots of our work to explore a possible solution to getting a 3D printer to make a frequency map from … Continue reading
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Tagged data, openframeworks, peter vasil, visualisation
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Placename poem (the flyover script)
While working on Soul Walker, I’ve been revisiting the files we made for the Nottingham University research phase last year and wondering about those files generated by NetLogo of a ‘soul’ patiently trudging across the territory I flew over, oblivious … Continue reading
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Tagged data, gis, gpx, NetLogo, psychogeography, QGIS, soul walker, visualisation
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