Sunday, 25 April 2010

IDAT209 - GPS - Initial Walkthrough

Ok so now instead of having Shaun Murray, we now have Ben for a short period of time. He’s going to be teaching us about GPS & Hertizan Space. However I am already quite confident with this area, as we covered a lot of material with Gianni in our first year.
For the next set of posts I will be talking about my previous years work as well as my new work. I will include some images of my first year & second year work. I feel that this will show a level of development in my work.
For the first session we were asked to either use the GPS equipment that the university supplies us with, which after last year’s difficulties I didn’t want to do, or use our own equipment. My mobile has the ability to track the GPS position of the phone so I used this.
We were also asked to form groups of 4 and create a set of rules that directed us around the city centre. Our main rule was to follow any method of transporting, apart from walking, until we saw a new method. We thought that this would allow us to keep a heavily influenced but unknown path. Below you will find the initial image of the route, extracted from our groups GPS device.

Now I have this data I need to figure out what I’m going to do with it & how I could use this method of data recording to help me transform my area of Stonehouse.