Why I Track My Location and You Should Too

by John McKerrell on Apr 02, 2010

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Talk given by me at Where 2.0 2010 ...

Talk given by me at Where 2.0 2010

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Why I Track My Location and You Should Too — Presentation Transcript

Why I track my location and you should too John McKerrell

GeoRSS

Map of China • Map of China trip with photos overlaying

Just photos? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2087094553/

Map of Where2.0 showing twitters

Detailed trace • Map of running around the block, without home shown

Map of Australia

Singapore

Melbourne

Map of Airlie Beach or Sydney

Long Tail?

Time spent at favourite places - 2008

Time spent at favourite places - 2009

Time spent at favourite places - 2009 Client Ofﬁce

Time spent at favourite places - 2009 Vegas Holiday Client Ofﬁce

Time spent at favourite places - 2009 Vegas Holiday Client Ofﬁce State of the Map Conference

Time spent at favourite places - 2009 Local Train Vegas Holiday Station Client Ofﬁce State of the Map Conference

Time spent by “state/region” - 2008

Time spent by “state/region” - 2008 (hiding travels near home)

Time spent by “state/region” - 2009 (hiding travels near home)

Time spent by “state/region” - 2009 (hiding travels near home) Inve rcly Vegas SOTM de, Holiday S cotl (Nevada) and London Manchester(Client Ofﬁce)

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/peterito/3054501076/

http://vimeo.com/10636004

http://vimeo.com/10636060

http://vimeo.com/10636149

http://vimeo.com/10636282

http://vimeo.com/10636333

Wrap Up • Real time tracking without free data plans is hard, expensive, annoying

Wrap Up • If you keep a history of your location you can see where you were when you created any online content

Wrap Up • A few years of personal tracking data makes for some impressive visualisations

Acknowledgements • Map data CCBYSA 2010 OpenStreetMap.org contributors • Videos produced by www.itoworld.com

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