2. Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform
Geoloqi, has collected his location every few seconds
for over three years. He put his data on a map.
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4. How Many Data Points?
Approximately one GPS point was recorded
every 2-6 seconds and these images
represent about 2.5 million total GPS points.
Collectively, they represent a data portrait of
his life: everywhere he’s been and the places
I’ve been most frequently. The map is
coloured by year, so you can see how his
footprint had changed over the years,
depending on where he lived.
5. Methods
To get data at this resolution, I had to bring back-up batteries
with me and charge my phone whenever I could. I would
manually turn the tracker on when I moved, and turn it off when I
was at an indoor location for a long period of time. To get this
level of accuracy results in a great deal of battery drain.
One of the reasons why I started Geoloqi is to be able to make
tracking this kind of data easier for myself, and to improve
battery life (along the way we took some of my manual methods
for battery management and bundled it up into a set of mobile
SDKs for iPhone and Android for adding location to applications
without the intensive battery drain).
Below is an image of the script while it is running to produce the
GPS maps.
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7. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
