About a year ago I moved to Alameda, California. I was surprised to learn that Alameda is the only city in California that actually bans the construction of new apartments in its charter (which is like a city’s constitution) thanks
Mapping Oakland’s license plate reader data
For the past few years the Oakland police department has been using license plate reader (LPR) technology to record the license plates of cars. In response to a public records requests the city released the entire data set to Ars
RunParticles ported to Windows
I’ve ported RunParticles, my app for animating GPS track logs, to Windows. The installer is available here. It has been tested on Windows 8.1.
RunParticles Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find the track files for my GPS unit? Modern Garmin devices like the Forerunner 920XT and 620 mount as a drive when connected to a computer via the USB cable. Inside this drive is a folder called
RunParticles Release Notes
Version 1.01 February 1, 2015 Fixed a crash that could occur if a basemap tile could not be loaded Added show/hide context menu item for multiple selected layers in the layer list widget Version 1.0 December 23, 2014
Introducing RunParticles
RunParticles is a free, open source Mac application that animates many GPS track logs on a scrollable map. More information and download here.
RunParticles
A Free Mac and Windows app for animating GPS track logs As an avid runner and cyclist I like to explore as much of my surroundings as possible. To keep workouts interesting I began a quest to cover every street
Getting tracklogs into Mapnik
The following describes my experience generating an OpenLayers slippy map from GPS tracklogs using TileMill, TileCache, and Mapnik. I started by exporting my run data from Garmin Training Center and converting it from Garmin Training Center format (.tcx) to GPS
Run map + OpenStreetMap
I followed the instructions to add OpenStreetMap to my run map. Larger version.
Running map
Three years of GPS track logs made into a slippy map. This little project was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. It took a great deal of trial and error. I’ll follow up with a post