Category Archives: GPS

Walk with Martin in Adlershof

Posted on 2011-05-06 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Yesterday, 5 May, Martin and I met at Treptower Park at 14:00, took the S-Bahn to Adlershof and walked through that interesting landscape, destined to be Berlin’s science park which, thanks to economic meltdown and lack of investment, went off … Continue reading →

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Python script that reads GPS log files and sends values via OSC

Posted on 2011-04-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

This is the companion post to the one below, (Python script that sends live GPS values over OSC). It is for people who don’t have a GPS to attach but want to experiment with the kind of values you get … Continue reading →

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Python script that sends live GPS values over OSC

Posted on 2011-04-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After meeting André Wakko at the fantastically bonkers workshop Insecure Territories with Bengt Sjolén, Martin Howse and Brendan Howell, I noticed that he was sonorizing wi-fi traffic and I cheekily introduced him to my GPS project for making some kind … Continue reading →

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Compile New GPSBabel from source

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A new version of GPSBabel – version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel site. I’m here to tell you that installing from the source worked pretty painlessly … Continue reading →

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A Python script to get a list of placenames from latitude and longitude

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Here’s a handy adaptation from Nicolas Laurance’s geoname.py script which takes a lat long and returns a list of place names and their code derived from the geonames database. #!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding:utf-8 -*- # based on geoname.py by Nicolas … Continue reading →

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