Goal: Predict how people move as a function of terrain.
Lost Track Website
Read and discuss papers
Check out activetrails.com
Why don't they have a search function? -spengy
It is neat, but more people need to participate to make it work. Many popular trails are missing or incorrect. -spengy
Lots of trails are numbered, not named -spengy
Make a page on the wiki for the keeping of meeting minutes
Check out everytrail.com
just by enumerating the page ID numbers (an int can only get so big…right?). –snppla
Makes me want to geotag photographs and upload my trips……. –
snppla
Would there be any problems in crawling the website? In 240 we never seemed to cared…only following the robot filter. I can't seem to find one….and I don't seem to find a term of use for browsing the website…. –
snppla
Observation: It seems that every tracklog on this website can be downloaded in a format native to Google Earth. This will make visual analysis easier to do, thanks to google's great 3D rendering. –James
I've finished mining the tracklogs –
snppla
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I've compressed 700MB of the hiking tracks from Spencer G's home directory into a .bz2 file. It can be found in /home/spengy on tanglefoot. –
Spengy 17:07, 20 May 2009 (EDT)
Analyze Data Collected
Obtain GPS units
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$250 MSRP
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microSD storage (Limited internal memory. Only for basically waypoints and tracklogs)
25 hour battery life
Can save more tracks
color screen
automatic routing (turn by turn directions)
other stuff we don't care about
Train up on IRB ethical/legal guidelines
Resources
This is world wind. It's pretty much an open source version of Google Earth by NASA. I just thought it was interesting to note.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/. Don't get too excited though. They admit Google Earth is more complete. –
snppla
Right now I am trying to search for trail data. That way when we analyze our data we can sift out what was on trails and what wasn't. Or maybe we could look at the everytrail stuff and look at pointers where only one person has gone. (I've had no luck)–
snppla
Bayesian Model
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