Comments on: The year to date http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/ Adventures in maps, cartography, visualization, and Flash Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:42:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy Woodruff http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-7629 Andy Woodruff Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:43:46 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-7629 Well, I probably wouldn't call it a mental map, as it's from memory but traced over a regular map... but if you want to, feel free to grab any of these images. I like the Flickr pool and will have to explore what you've done. And yes, I'm still keeping up with this. I think perhaps after it's been a year I'll try to put it all together into something more final, like an animation. Well, I probably wouldn’t call it a mental map, as it’s from memory but traced over a regular map… but if you want to, feel free to grab any of these images. I like the Flickr pool and will have to explore what you’ve done.

And yes, I’m still keeping up with this. I think perhaps after it’s been a year I’ll try to put it all together into something more final, like an animation.

]]> By: fabian http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-7524 fabian Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:01:13 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-7524 hi, still on it? I have done some stuff on mental maps. It would be great to have your map in the related flicker pool. it is on http://www.flickr.com/groups/mentalmap/ as you draw it all by hand it is sort of a mental map drawn from memory, isn't it? hi,
still on it? I have done some stuff on mental maps. It would be great to have your map in the related flicker pool.
it is on http://www.flickr.com/groups/mentalmap/
as you draw it all by hand it is sort of a mental map drawn from memory, isn’t it?

]]> By: Andy Woodruff http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-6633 Andy Woodruff Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:59:18 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-6633 It's continuing the same as usual. I'm still just drawing my lines on a map. I was thinking I'd try to get a whole year's worth of data and then come up with some fantastic way to view it. Here's the current progress for the local Boston area: <img src="http://cartogrammar.com/images/paths-local-0809.png" alt="Paths traveled in Boston as of August 2009"/> It’s continuing the same as usual. I’m still just drawing my lines on a map. I was thinking I’d try to get a whole year’s worth of data and then come up with some fantastic way to view it. Here’s the current progress for the local Boston area:
Paths traveled in Boston as of August 2009

]]> By: fabian http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-6620 fabian Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:33:12 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-6620 andy, how is the mapping going? Any progress or was this the end? andy,
how is the mapping going? Any progress or was this the end?

]]> By: fabian http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4635 fabian Mon, 18 May 2009 19:29:43 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4635 andy, it is very simple. if you go for a garmin device you can directly download the tracks to google earth. there is also a lot of simple free software to use to do this. as you do graphics I assume your also on a mac so I can recommend, "load my tracks" or "link2gps". standard gps format is .gpx, if from google it will be .kml. to take the tracks into illu for example (will have lost all the geospatial information) you can use a .svg converter. I usually use the http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ because it does a great job and is very simple. is there a button to press for following up comment? I nearly missed this conversation... I would be interested to feature your track drawings on my blog, do you mind? andy,
it is very simple. if you go for a garmin device you can directly download the tracks to google earth. there is also a lot of simple free software to use to do this. as you do graphics I assume your also on a mac so I can recommend, “load my tracks” or “link2gps”.
standard gps format is .gpx, if from google it will be .kml. to take the tracks into illu for example (will have lost all the geospatial information) you can use a .svg converter. I usually use the http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ because it does a great job and is very simple.
is there a button to press for following up comment? I nearly missed this conversation…
I would be interested to feature your track drawings on my blog, do you mind?

]]> By: Andy Woodruff http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4421 Andy Woodruff Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:59 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4421 Hi Fabian, I've run across your UrbanDiary project before. Interesting stuff! What sort of technology and/or software does it take to get the data from the GPS unit onto a map? It's something I've never really dealt with because I've never had cause to do it for any serious purposes, so I don't know what the process is like. Hi Fabian,

I’ve run across your UrbanDiary project before. Interesting stuff! What sort of technology and/or software does it take to get the data from the GPS unit onto a map? It’s something I’ve never really dealt with because I’ve never had cause to do it for any serious purposes, so I don’t know what the process is like.

]]> By: fabian http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4390 fabian Mon, 11 May 2009 19:56:50 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4390 hi, this is a nice map, and I would say probably more accurate than if you'd use a GPS. On the other hand you invested a lot more time in this than you would using a GPS. They are cheap and simple. I am wearing a a Garmin device on my wrist for the past three years (foretrex 201 is cheap, forerunner 405 is expensive), its just like a watch. No tracing, a few simple corrections every now and then... Some tracking stuff on my blog http://urbantick.blogspot.com/search/label/GPS%20tracks and currently I am using the technology for my research with a number of participants wearing the devices. http://urbantick.blogspot.com/search/label/urbanDiary hi,
this is a nice map, and I would say probably more accurate than if you’d use a GPS.
On the other hand you invested a lot more time in this than you would using a GPS. They are cheap and simple. I am wearing a a Garmin device on my wrist for the past three years (foretrex 201 is cheap, forerunner 405 is expensive), its just like a watch. No tracing, a few simple corrections every now and then…
Some tracking stuff on my blog http://urbantick.blogspot.com/search/label/GPS%20tracks and currently I am using the technology for my research with a number of participants wearing the devices.
http://urbantick.blogspot.com/search/label/urbanDiary

]]> By: Andy Woodruff http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4245 Andy Woodruff Thu, 07 May 2009 15:13:50 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4245 Tyler: Nope, I'm being very low tech and just keeping an Illustrator file where I draw the paths over a map sometime after traveling them. I'm missing out on a lot of analysis and statistics, but I didn't feel like investing too much in this. Tyler: Nope, I’m being very low tech and just keeping an Illustrator file where I draw the paths over a map sometime after traveling them. I’m missing out on a lot of analysis and statistics, but I didn’t feel like investing too much in this.

]]> By: Mark Harrower http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4244 Mark Harrower Thu, 07 May 2009 14:46:35 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4244 Hey Andy - This is very cool stuff. You have a better memory than I do. This posted reminded me of a similar "art project" that's been running in the Netherlands for sometime: http://realtime.waag.org/ And of course of the maps of "personal space/time geographies" proposed by Hagerstrand and others who worked on time geography in the 60s and 70s (all pre-digital of course): http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/lifeline/consult/3d_time_geog.gif Hey Andy – This is very cool stuff. You have a better memory than I do. This posted reminded me of a similar “art project” that’s been running in the Netherlands for sometime: http://realtime.waag.org/

And of course of the maps of “personal space/time geographies” proposed by Hagerstrand and others who worked on time geography in the 60s and 70s (all pre-digital of course): http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/lifeline/consult/3d_time_geog.gif

]]> By: Tyler http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/the-year-to-date/comment-page-1/#comment-4227 Tyler Thu, 07 May 2009 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/?p=131#comment-4227 Okay, then a follow up comment. Are you aggregating your traces at the end of each week/month/day in a spreadsheet/journal/database/GIS? Okay, then a follow up comment. Are you aggregating your traces at the end of each week/month/day in a spreadsheet/journal/database/GIS?

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