{"id":677,"date":"2010-01-05T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2016-01-05T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T03:15:58","slug":"mapping-a-whole-darn-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/mapping-a-whole-darn-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping a whole darn year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/paths-local-2009.png\" alt=\"2009 travel in Cambridge and Boston\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the past I have mentioned here an ongoing project to trace my every movement on a map, using memory and mouse-clicking rather than technology that costs money. Well, the advent of 2010 marks a full calendar year of doing this and a good moment to show some results.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this is not a novel concept (to choose a single example, I must link to <a href=\"http:\/\/urbantick.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/GPS%20tracks\">UrbanTick<\/a> here), and nobody besides me cares about the particulars of my travels. Shut up, it&#8217;s fun anyway. There are two reasons why this originally sounded interesting. First, I work from home, and there is very little routine in my trips out of the house, both in timing and destination. Rather than a predictable daily grind, I could hope for a an unknown awesome-looking pattern. Second, I keep the tracks separated by mode of transportation (foot, car, train, bus, and bike so far). A portrait of urban mobility or some such. As I bonus I will add that for a urban geography and cartography nerd, this project works as motivation to get out and explore different parts of town. There are witnesses to my excitement over being able to add a new line to the map.<\/p>\n<p>Goals for 2010:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cover more ground! I still haven&#8217;t made it to half of Cambridge, and there is a lot of neighboring Boston and Somerville to explore.<\/li>\n<li>Use a bicycle more than four times in a year. It is perhaps the best way to get around town and shouldn&#8217;t be collecting dust.<\/li>\n<li>Collect more data, such as distance, for summary statistics. This may require more sophisticated techniques than simply drawing lines, though, which would conflict with my New Year&#8217;s resolution to be more technologically lazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><em>* Sorry for making this an increasingly Boston-centric blog, but hey, for your own projects you start with what&#8217;s outside your front door too, right? Not that I actually have a front door.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past I have mentioned here an ongoing project to trace my every movement on a map, using memory and mouse-clicking rather than technology that costs money. Well, the advent of 2010 marks a full calendar year of doing this and a good moment to show some results. Obviously this is not a novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67,36,66,28],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-maps","tag-animation","tag-boston","tag-gps","tag-map-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}