Tag Archives: logging

Using Spatialite to store and represent our GPX data

Posted on 2014-05-06 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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

Posted on 2013-08-12 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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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Personal Data Mountain – coding strategies

Posted on 2013-01-15 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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

Posted on 2012-12-19 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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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Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

Posted on 2011-10-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading →

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