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Category Archives: Software
Drawinglife, the openFrameworks GPS visualisation application, open sourced
Three years after having that initial conversation about our work with Peter at an openFrameworks workshop, he has opensourced the visualisation animation application on github here. What started out as an application to simply animate our GPS tracks (as used … Continue reading
Posted in Code, Diary, GPS, Software, Walking
Tagged gpx, logging, openframeworks, peter vasil, visualisation
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Missing Journeys
In making the graph above, showing all our journeys for the years 2007 – 2012 (D is Dan, S is Soph, numbers on the ‘y’ axis are thousands of km), I used a custom-written piece of python software which detects … Continue reading
Posted in Code, GPS, Python, Software, Walking
Tagged QGIS, Quantified Self, Spatialite
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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
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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