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Tag Archives: QGIS
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
Posted in Code, Diary, GPS, Linux, Python, Software
Tagged archive, data, database, eTrex, Garmin, gpx, logging, Mathieu Baudier, openframeworks, peter vasil, psychogeography, QGIS, Spatialite, sqlite, storage, visualisation, xml
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Memorialisation of Tempelhofer Feld Outcomes I
For those of you waiting for the drawing I made together with students from the HZT BA Choreography course during our ‘Choreographing the City’ workshop, here is a preliminary outcome. Each student’s line is a different colour. It was quickly … Continue reading
Posted in Diary, GPS, Walking
Tagged Berlin, drawing, pen plotter, psychogeography, QGIS
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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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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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Placename poem (the flyover script)
While working on Soul Walker, I’ve been revisiting the files we made for the Nottingham University research phase last year and wondering about those files generated by NetLogo of a ‘soul’ patiently trudging across the territory I flew over, oblivious … Continue reading
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Tagged data, gis, gpx, NetLogo, psychogeography, QGIS, soul walker, visualisation
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