Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Cool Courier Mapping Project

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BlindRobert
11-15-05, 07:52 AM
This is a link to an mpeg that shows the trips of eCourier, a bicycle courier company in London over a three day period. There is a better, but still brief, description of the project at www.futurefeeder.com

http://www.ecourier.co.uk/media/eCourier_GPS.mpeg

Cheers

techone
11-15-05, 12:45 PM
That made my head hurt!

Pretty cool how when it's at its busiest you can basically see every major route in central london.
I'd like to see it overlaid on an actual streetmap as well.
The LT
11-15-05, 01:00 PM
ya it is cool although it just looks like one of those worm games where you go around and eat up the dots or whatever. haveing it mapped out on an actual street map would be sweet.

jhnmrk
11-15-05, 04:11 PM
i got all the way to level 5, but couldn't save the princess.
Cynikal
11-15-05, 04:47 PM
This need to be done with the Google Map API. Cool effect though
bostontrevor
11-15-05, 05:02 PM
Cool. I'd like to see it done so that the trails were less than 100% opaque but additive. So you'd see the most common routes build up to fully opaque while others would remain faint.
Captain Monkey
11-15-05, 05:21 PM
Very cool. I always wondered how a day at work would look like if it was maped out. Anyway, see if you could lay it on a real map to get a better feel for the work being done. -Peace-
Cynikal
11-15-05, 05:30 PM
If I had the data I probably could. The animation would be the hard part. Most mapping software programs are set up for temporal variables.
jrowe
11-15-05, 05:46 PM
Not a hard programming problem. I'd like to have the data. Maybe I'll get my own GPS thing and map myself. Fantastic. That's the excuse I've been needing to buy the tomtom.
mrbertfixy
11-15-05, 06:02 PM
what was the scale? how many miles from one side to the other.
boycey
11-16-05, 01:11 AM
About one hundred metres. The busy bit in the middle is the coffee shop.
LóFarkas
11-16-05, 04:22 AM
Haha
mrbertfixy
11-16-05, 03:00 PM
maybe it's the local dealer.