A trace of the Traverse Me walking and talking

On a whim I left some GPS modules in my bag, logging for the duration of yesterday’s Traverse Me walk and talk event at Warwick University.

I wasn’t expecting to get much of a trace off them, but it turns out that it worked quite well! Here are a few shots of the data I got overlaid onto Google Earth. If you have Google Earth installed on your computer you can download the .kml file and have a zoom around for yourself.

Jack Martin and Tocil halls of residence, with a few pauses along the way

Walking up Library Road and then walking alongside the WBS Teaching Centre. Is it the trees making the GPS lines longer, or the bricks?

Walking across the fields on the hill, the lines are much shorter as both modules agree more closely in their calculated positions.

A diversion around the lake

Back to civilisation and once again the scattering effect of the buildings can be seen.

I’m still fascinated by how the quality of the lines are affected by the fabric of the landscape and, as shown by the images above, the walk we did covered several different terrains so the resultant drawing has several different characters in different places.

Until yesterday I’d never seen much more of the campus than the Arts Centre, so I found it very difficult to try and relate where I was to Wood’s map of walkable space (with the buildings left as empty space). I’m really pleased that the GPS logging worked so well and I can now figure out where we went and link that back to Traverse Me.

I also like the little clusters of lines that show where we paused and had little conversations. Now I can link thoughts back to where we were when they bubbled up.