GPS Maps

Update on the progress of the maps (in processing).

Worked on integrating both velocity of travel (squares) and density (circles) in combination with gps traces.

Three Minute Thesis

As part of my participation in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at uWaterloo, we had to choose a single slide to represent our thesis (and present it in under 3 minutes). I decided to use one of the first plots I did of the GPS data collected from the uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map study that I completed late last year. Curious to see how the event goes down tomorrow.

 -gc

uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map

As part of my participation on the uWaterloo New Student Services Building Project Committee, I ran a research study to collect GPS points from students on campus over a 2 week period at the end of last term.



To do this we developed, tested and launched a custom built mobile application in 3 weeks. Students downloaded the app, filling out information about themselves, such as their faculty and expected year of graduation, and then let it run the background over the study period.  By leveraging uWaterloo's social media presence  as well as via word of mouth, videos, and an informative website, we had 367 students log 382,200 GPS points, which exceeded our goal of 1% participation of the student body.

To communicate results of this study, in the form of maps of campus, I developed an interactive html5 web app (see below or visit site here) that allows users to plot the GPS data in various ways.  This tool allows stakeholders of all technical abilities to engage and use the data to make more informed decisions.

 This "map app" shows how data can be made accessible and actionable to all stakeholders. My inspiration for this was from a project my friend Matt did which allowed a client to design their own suspended ceiling (here).





I'm interested to hear any comments or suggestions!

Processing and Meshes

I'm using Processing for a few projects right now.

Here is a screenshots of a test I was working on today:

Now time to apply this script to the 380,000 GPS data points collected during the recent uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic App study (see earlier post here).

Geoff

uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map

Hi Everyone who goes to uWaterloo, or knows people who do:

I need your help. We are about to begin making a pedestrian traffic map of students on uWaterloo's main campus from Monday November 26 to December 7th.

Seeing how students navigate campus will allow us to make better design decisions and provide us with a valuable tool for planning the design of the new Student Services Building.

We have developed a mobile app to make participation easy. If you are a current UW student, please consider participating. There is up to $10 in compensation for the first 300 students!

If you are not a UW student please consider recommending this to someone who is.

More info: uwaterloo.ca/sso/map

To download app: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=uwaterloo+pedestrian&c=apps

* The iOS app is coming... we are waiting for Apple to put it up (US Thanksgiving).

Thanks, 

Geoff