GPS City

Using GPS points to map out a city we get a new dimension to our maps. Using the increasingly ubiquitous GPS data available it occurs to me we have a new way to cartographically visualize infrastructure. With the combination of millions of GPS points we can build up an great view of the city.

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We can tell where the busy roads and junctions are without any road hierarchy attributes or traffic monitoring. Cities pays millions to monitor traffic and here I can produce a more informative visualization on the fly. It’s not upto the statistical rigors of a road planner but it is visually more informative at a glance.

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Here is the cities road network generated entirely from GPS points:

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Posted

May 7, 2018

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Lucas

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5 responses to “GPS City”

Rachel

May 7, 2018

This is very cool. What are you capturing the GPS points from?

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1. Lucas
  
  May 8, 2018
  
  I pulled the data from a fleet of city sanitation vehicles in this case. If you look carefully you can see where the vehicles spend most of their time
  
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  1. Lucas
    
    June 30, 2020
    
    There is a company in New Zealand called smartrak, they provide gps units on fleet vehicles. I used their data as the fleet of vehicles has a contract with them.
    
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Surveyors Auckland

December 25, 2020

These are some great gps city that you have discussed here. I really loved it and thank you very much for sharing this with us. You have a great visualization and you have really presented this content in a really good manner.

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1. Lucas
  
  December 26, 2020
  
  Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
  
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