Cool Courier Mapping Project
11-15-05, 08:52 AM
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quien es mas macho?
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Cool Courier Mapping Project
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
https://www.ecourier.co.uk/media/eCourier_GPS.mpeg
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https://www.ecourier.co.uk/media/eCourier_GPS.mpeg
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11-15-05, 01:45 PM
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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.
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.
11-15-05, 02:00 PM
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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.
11-15-05, 05:47 PM
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This need to be done with the Google Map API. Cool effect though
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11-15-05, 06:02 PM
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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.
11-15-05, 06:21 PM
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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-
11-15-05, 06:30 PM
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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.
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11-15-05, 06:46 PM
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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.
11-15-05, 07:02 PM
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what was the scale? how many miles from one side to the other.
11-16-05, 04:00 PM
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maybe it's the local dealer.
