New Hacking Cats

H5N1 few weeks agone the BBC documentary programme Horizon broadcast a fascinating especial nearly the life of the domestic cat. For the programme, The Secret Life of Cats, Horizon in addition to a squad from the Royal Veterinary College attached GPS trackers in addition to micro-cameras to a disclose of domestic cats inwards a Surrey village.

The BBC used Ordnance Survey maps to visualise the private tracks of each of the cats. Unfortunately they did non brand the delineate information available for other map developers.

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The code for the hack is available on GitHub. Alongside the Python code for grabbing the delineate information the repository includes KML in addition to GeoJSON files of each cat's rail in addition to a link to a Google Map displaying each track.