Category Archives: Linux

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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Gnuplot as a GIS part 2

I liked using gnuplot in this way so much, I decided to hone in on Europe, of course the densest information in the data source. Constraining the range of the longitude to 6 degrees West to 23 degrees East, you … Continue reading

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A New Way of Looking at Where We’ve Been

Tinkering with gnuplot again tonight, waiting for Soph to come back from Essen, I was using the charting software to visualise the list of locations in our gps database, sorted by longitude which gives a list of locations we’ve been … 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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Capture Batch Script updated

Looking back the other day at this post, I remembered that it had somehow stopped working on the eeepc. I suspected this had something to do with vlc and was always bothered anyway about using such a big, fully-featured programme … Continue reading

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