https://github.com/brannondorsey/thisisatrackingdevice

An interactive map to display data from a public tracking device project
https://github.com/brannondorsey/thisisatrackingdevice

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An interactive map to display data from a public tracking device project

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brannondorsey/thisisatrackingdevice
• Owner: brannondorsey
• Created: 2013-04-23T02:56:57.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-05-09T19:01:11.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-01T14:28:31.982Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Processing
• Size: 12.5 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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#This is a Tracking Device

![Map Image](readme_images/overview.png)

![Close up map Image](readme_images/time_elapsed.png)

![Street View Image](readme_images/street_view.png)

This GitHub repo holds all of the source files for the interactive map software created for the forthcoming *This is a Tracking Device*

project:

>Small metal cubes with the text 'this is a tracking device' will be placed around public downtown Chicago.

>Inside each sealed box is a tracking device with a lifespan of 7 days. The data from the location of each box is logged every 3 minutes and eventually

>visualized in the gallery space using the above software. Public interaction with the Tracker Cubes is entirely voluntary although

>no information is provided on the cubes themselves.

>This work deals with themes of public interaction, temptation, and mystery from the point of the anonymous strangers who

>move the cubes. The themes alter towards surveillance, power, as well as data study and analysis from the point of the

>artist and viewers.

This software was created using the excellent [Unfolding Maps](http://unfoldingmaps.org/) librabry for Processing. It is intended to be a

suplementary approach by which to explore the data collected from *This is a Tracking Device*. Map features include:

+ Draw interactive routes using GPX data*

+ View timestamps of gps trackpoints by hovering over the route

+ View time elapsed between two selected trackpoints by clicking two locations along the route

+ View direction of travel through simple arrow visualizations on waypoints

+ Access pixelated Google Street View image of locations by clicking circular waypoints

+ Use intuitive controls for rotatation, panning, and zooming of the map 

\*map auto-pans to view locations represented in the .gpx data file. This feature does not yet support auto-zooming and some values may need to

bee hard coded into each sketch depending on the number of trackpoints in the .gpx file to avoid recursion errors.