June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 5, Mapping with Gadgets
#59 Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other Media
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This package, along with the saw blade at the base of the “keyboard,” makes
a perfect data-logging and geo-annotating solution, except for the possible
difficulty in getting through airport security and the always possible risk of
personal injury. What if we could use an ultra small computer? The Gum-
stix Waysmall computers (http://gumstix.com/) are tiny!
They are full Linux computers running on the Intel XScale PXA255 proces-
sor. They have two serial ports, one that you normally reserve to connect to
the console in order to control the unit, and the second free and waiting to
connect to your GPS unit. Add a 128 MB SDRAM card, and you should be
able to store tracklogs at one-second intervals for over two weeks.
I have my Waysmall Computer and a GPS waiting in my workshop, ready to
sacrifice all in support of my dreams of a capture device to support “Quanti-
tative Psychogeography” as well as “Geospatially-aware narrative.” As the
unofficial motto of the Locative Media Lab runs, “Location: It’s every-
where!”
HACK
#59
Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other
Media Hack #59
One way to make a chunk o’media better is to know where it was created!
We talk about geocoding photographs elsewhere (see “View Your Photo
Thumbnails on a Flash Map”
[Hack #39]), but what about other media? How
about that digital voice recorder? ...
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