Tag Archives: visualisation

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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Memorialisation of Tempelhofer Feld Outcomes II

I finally got to upload the animation of the Tempelhofer Feld memorialisation choreography to vimeo today. Thanks again to the 11 students of the HZT BA Choreography course who made this work with me on that blustery 29 October 2013. … 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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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

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