New Tracking Journalists Alongside Google Maps

When I commencement saw the Fake Bear Tracker Map from the Foothills Research Institute I directly idea that it would hold out actually cool to piece of occupation my ain location information through the application.

I asked the developers if I could 'borrow' their code for my ain visualisation as well as they really kindly agreed.  My thinking was that if I could piece of occupation a year's worth of my ain location information through this Google Maps based application it would divulge some interesting patterns most places that I view as well as highlight the parts of my abode town that I convey silent to explore.

However when I looked to export my Google Latitude information I rapidly realised that my check-ins were also sporadic as well as that I exclusively always check-in at the same few venues. I as well as so remembered that Cal Flyn, a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, had used Google Maps to map 1 yr of her movements.

Using Freedom of Information laws Cal obtained all the location information held most her past times her cellphone companionship as well as created a squeamish visualisation called Digital surveillance: what my telephone records nation most me.

Cal Flyn's visualisation is really informative simply I mean value that using the HeatMap layer inwards the Google Maps API gives a much amend overall pic of 1 year's worth of location data. I thus created this Journalist Tracker Map that uses the Foothills Research Institute's code to visualise Hal's 1 yr of location data. 

I added a engagement layer to the map so you lot tin decease on runway of the engagement information as well as decease sec feel of how long the visualisation has left to piece of occupation (it runs until 01/09/2012).

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