Tag Archives: gpx

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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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

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Garmin GPS Comparison Old and New Etrex

Peter kindly lent me his new Garmin eTrex 10 which he bought to go on his last trip to the States. (I think our practice inspired him to want to record his tracks too, which is nice). I’ve been testing … Continue reading

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