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Category Archives: GPS
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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Excursion in Gleisdreieck Park with Martin
At last, after a record dark start to 2013, Berlin is waking up to bright, clear mornings and the smell and sounds of Spring. Martin and I decided that we would have an excursion together today, after a long gap. … Continue reading
Posted in Diary, GPS, Walking
Tagged Berlin, martin howse, plants, psychogeography, psychogeophysics
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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