Category Archives: Code

Using Spatialite to store and represent our GPX data

Background A quick bit of background. As people who read this blog know, we have recorded every journey we make, every day, with a GPS since 2003 (Dan) and 2007 (Sophia). As you can imagine, this practice has evolved technologically … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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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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