How does your movement look like? The challenge was to find creative way to translate GPS data into visual form. The idea is quite simple. What is home? Probably it’s your center of the world. Every journey starts and ends here. I picked my home as initial point and marked it as origin of the [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
visualizing data. process
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Progress on GPS visualization project for the data workshop
See: data workshop I wanted to get a feeling for the data so I started off by creating a quick and dirty Processing sketch that visualizes the location data recorded with AntiMap. I used Unfolding Maps, a very complete and well-made library for using maps inside Processing. Here is a screenshot. That felt very static, [...]
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Visualizing skateboarding
Skataviz – Prototype from Design I/O on Vimeo. iPhone tied to skateboard, records location and orientation. Custom software written in openFrameworks processes the data. It’s smart enough to detect tricks. I wonder how they managed to map the location data to the video. Can be interesting for the data workshop.
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Project plan GPS visualization project for the data workshop
Core of the idea Walking brings the city alive. The piece will visualize data from walks and runs. We all create our own version of the city. The visualization will not include a typical map – it will show how we create Barcelona with our walks. People watching the piece might be able to recognize [...]
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Data workshop – ideas, research, feedback
Assignment Visualize GPS & compass data recorded with AntiMap. Notes on using Antimap I experimented a bit with the iPhone version of the app. It works well. Here are a few things that are good to know: The app should stay in the foreground. Don’t put your phone in stand by, don’t minimize the app, [...]