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A much better Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date
Of course, just as I predicted, Peter beat me to it and seemed to learn as much about Python as me in a few days whereas its taken me a few years to get this far (sigh). Last night, as I was making progress, he posted me a script he …
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Using the BT-747 Programme with Dataloggers
For those of us that struggle with the BT-747 programme, I thought I’d just note down some methods here for getting GPX files out of the raw logs that you download from your datalogger.
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A Python script to get a list of placenames from latitude and longitude
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.
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Please sign this if you care about cultural production in Berlin
This excellent site pretty much explains itself in English and German - about the laughable attempt by the mayor of Berlin and cronies to get as much as they can out of cultural activity in this city while at the same time making absolutely no effort to support the cultural producers …
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A complete and utter starter Python script
A friend said that it was the duty of a computer scientist to learn a new computer language a year and asked me to introduce him to Python.
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Sap Rising
Just before it got colder (this morning), I could have sworn that Spring was in the air. I went for a walk yesterday with my Nordic sticks in Treptower Park and it was not half as bleak mid Winter as I’d thought. Green leaves poking through - something in the …
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Hmm, not so sure about last post
Already come a cropper, hoist by my own petard, etc etc
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Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date
[LATER EDIT: please don’t use this script - see here for an improved version]
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Install an Android APK file
I asked Peter to write us an Android application for reporting our mood at periodic intervals to go with recording everywhere we go with a GPS and saving all our text messages. Eventually, we could geo-locate these moods and match them up with any text messages we might be writing …
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My Method of collecting GPS tracks (to improve - this post and the method)
Answering an email today from William Heath about how to collect GPS data, I thought it a good idea to once and for all, write out what I do, as much for my own reference as for anyone else who comes across this dusty corner of the Internet, so here …
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