PILGRIMAGE

Text from www.archis.org
author: Florian Boer, architect and founder of -scape

(text partialy shortened by me)

The city is constantly on the move: people travel from home to the office, from the office to the café, from the café to friends, from the girlfriend to the gym, from the gym to the lounge, to the park, back home, to the supermarket, to the petrol station and back again. Besides its myriad functions, the city is chiefly a place where you’re on your way to somewhere.
Moving from one place to another is a daily activity, and it largely determines the way we experience our environment. And more important than the distance covered in this way, is the time spanned. Time is our yardstick for drawing up a mental map of the city. This notion of time is so important that there appears to be a ‘law for the preservation of travel time’: worldwide people spend 1.1 hours a day in transit, both in developing countries and the Western world. As soon as faster travel is available it is immediately translated into traversing ever greater distances. The time spent remains a constant factor; a balance that is continually reestablished. Read the rest of this entry »

Ich bin gerade dabei herauszufinden, welche Freeware-Applikationen es für diese beiden SonyEriccson-Smartphones (V600i & T610) gibt, die GPS Tracking via Bluetooth ermöglichen. Ziel wäre es Wege tracken zu können und diese dann als GPX-Daten auszugeben… Tipps willkommen!

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Der Wikingerkönig Harald Blauzahn (engl. Bluetooth) vereinte Norwegen und Dänemark. Er war bekannt für seine Kommunikationsfähigkeit und seine Begabung, Menschen miteinander in Kontakt zu bringen – aber er hätte wohl nie geahnt, dass er tausend Jahre später Namensgeber für eine leistungsstarke Technologie sein würde!

Folgendes GPX-Beispiel beschreibt meine aktuelle Position (multimap.com):


<_?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

<_wpt lat="52.5104" lon="13.4691">
<_ele>108
<_time>2007-03-26T22:49:06Z
<_name>FHB Basisstation
<_sym>private workspace
<_/wpt>
<_/gpx>


Wegen Darstellungschwierigkeiten habe ich jeweils den Unterstrich ergänzt: <_>

LAND INFO offers one of the world’s largest (250,000+ maps, 152+ countries) commercial archives of DRGs (Digital Raster Graphics — color scans with geo-referencing); this is the least-expensive format for digital topographic map data. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the advantages of MacGPS Pro is its ability to use digital maps and marine & aeronautical charts from a wide variety of sources. We have compiled a current sampling of digital images as a starting point to help you find the right one for your application. This is by no means an all inclusive list, but we will continue to monitor and update this list on a regular basis to serve as a resource for the GPS community. If you find an error or broken link in this list, please let us know so it can be updated. We value your feedback as our customer and will continue to strive to meet your needs. While some of these maps and charts are free for downloading, others are available for various fees. Some are supplied over the Internet; others are supplied on CDROM. As we have no affiliation with these organizations and have not verified that all maps from these sources are compatible with MacGPS Pro, it is the customer’s responsiblity to verify that any map purchased is in a format that MacGPS Pro can use. Maps in vector format will not work. Most raster maps in the following formats will work with MacGPS Pro: GeoTIFF, TIFF (TIF), JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PICT, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), SGI, TGA, PDF in OS X, and for Nautical Charts – NOS and BSB 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial or USB upload or download to a GPS receiver such as those from Garmin and Magellan. By flattening the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us, it returns to us the ability to freely move our own waypoint data between the programs and hardware we choose to use.

FlightTrack is free software. It is released with the source code under the terms of the GNU Public License. FlightTrack is a GPS utility designed exclusively for MacOS X. It can be used to download tracks and waypoints from a GPS and display them in 3D. Its main functions are: Read the rest of this entry »

via flickr: GeoGolf course completed 9/9/2005 by tgarneson

In each game, either 9 or 18 waypoints (or golf holes) are created, all centered around a starting point you specify. The exact locations of the holes are chosen at random by computer, with all the unpredictability that presents. Holes might be in suburban neighborhoods or in the middle of wilderness areas. The course creation engine does try to keep the holes out of the ocean.

Then, it’s up to you to see how close you can get to each hole. Your “score” for each hole is determined by how close you get to the exact waypoint. Report the reading on your GPS receiver, in meters, to the computer scorekeeper, which converts the distance into a number of “strokes”. The closer the distance, the fewer the strokes. Two or more Geodashing golfers who live near each other can set up contests to see who can do better on a given course. Or, an individual can compare his score on one course with his score on a different, randomly generated, course in the same area. Or players from around the world can compare their scores against each other, to see which area of the world provides the most accessible (or most challenging) terrain.

The following graphics were created by GPS Visualizer’s profile generator by Adam Schneider.

Biking uphill and back down in Santa Cruz, California (elevation profile, colored by speed)

Sailplane flight over Hungary (elevation profile, colored by elevation)

via: gpsvisualizer by Adam Schneider

Here’s the summit of Mount Hood, as rendered by Google Earth:

A custom-made image overlay containing an USGS aerial photo at close to its maximum resolution of 1 meter per pixel:

The same view with a USGS topographic map overlay:

In Google Earth, you can adjust the opacity of overlays. Here’s the topo map at about 20% and the aerial photo at about 60%:

EveryTrail is an online platform that enables you to visualize your travel experiences and share these with fellow travelers from all over the world. With EveryTrail you can easily upload GPS data you recorded while out on a trip and add your photos and notes, to create a compelling, interactive, visual record of your travel experience. EveryTrail was created by a small group of passionate travelers, out of dissatisfaction with current solutions to share trips.

“We believe that the best way to share travel experiences is to integrate your stories, photos and locations on a map. The map then becomes the medium to share your travel experience. A picture may say more than a thousand words, but when you place that picture in its geographical context along your route, you express more about your trip than you could ever express with pictures and words alone.”

Comment by Felix: … and obviously to earn a lot of money with web2.0 …

4 easy steps to find your first Geocache from www.geocaching.com

Step 1 – Researching the Cache
Keep in mind that distances can be deceiving. When you’re using your GPS unit to find a cache, the unit only knows how close the site is as the crow flies (a direct line). You may be a mile from the cache, but there may be a river in the way, or a near-vertical climb involving 3 miles of switchbacks, or a mountain – you get the picture. Read the rest of this entry »

The Trimble® Geocache NavigatorTM is the first fully featured geocaching application for the mobile phone. The software combines the GPS that is built into your phone with your phone’s wireless data network to allow you to: Read the rest of this entry »

Via: wmmna

Net_Dérive, by Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck with the collaboration of Ali Momeni, is a location sensitive mobile media art piece that calls for an exchange between participants in the gallery and participants in the streets. Deployed on advanced mobile phones, the work seeks to create a kind of musical instrument, thinking of the city-as-instrument.

Participants are given a kind of scarf with a mobile phone in each end and off they go to explore the neighborhood. One of the phones takes pictures every 20 secs and collects sounds, the other talks to the GPS (also in the scarf) and to the server inside the gallery space. On a radar they can see themselves pictured as dots but also the images they’re taking. The sounds and pictures collected in the streets are sampled and mapped to a 3D city map in the gallery. As users are walking they can hear some voice instructions through a pair of headphones. Those comments suggest paths to follow or turns to make, they are generated and heard in a musical fashion. The voice instructions are inspired by the old Situationist games and theory of the Dérive – now brought into the digital and mobile spheres. As the user chooses to heed or ignore these instructions, a trace of his/her path is carved out in the city.