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.
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.
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
Garmin Connect Google Maps Greasemonkey script updated
I updated my Greasemonkey script that replaces the Bing Map with a Google Map in Garmin Connect. This version is made faster by completely disabling the Bing Map and it no longer fetches the map information twice. Additionally, I’ve fixed
Missing Google Maps on Garmin Connect
Garmin Connect, a site I use to log my runs and bike rides, switched from Google Maps to Bing Maps back in November. Bing Maps’ coverage seems generally inferior to Google Maps and I think the maps just look better
NWSClient 1.2 Released
NWSClient version 1.2 is now available for download. This version fixes a number of bugs, adds detailed hourly forecast data, and increases the size of the text in the app icon so that the temperature is more readable. Download version