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Running = Good. Running + Smartphone GPS Running Apps = Better Mike Olkin, GIS Guy & Runner Runner in the Rain: http://dbeckerman.wordpress.com/ http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/editorials /smartphones_and_identity_you_a.html
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Running = Good. Running + Smartphone GPS Running Apps = Better

Jun 29, 2015

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Michael Olkin

Lightning talk about how the use of spatially enabled mobile technology has energized my interest in running. This presentation was given at Ignite Spatial Boston 2 on August 12, 2010 at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, MA. http://www.ispatialboston.com/
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Running = Good.

Running + Smartphone GPS Running Apps = Better

Mike Olkin,GIS Guy & Runner

Runner in the Rain: http://dbeckerman.wordpress.com/

http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/editorials/smartphones_and_identity_you_a.html

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I like to run.

Running is Spatial.

That was virtually irrelevant to me…until recently.

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Photo by Jim Plumb @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/67864216@N00/316074944/Caveman Lawyer Runner

I’m not a high-tech

runner

I never used tobother

keeping arunning log

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I had some challenges, too

*I would occasionally digitize a route, but rarely had time for that.

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect15/originals/Fig15_19.jpghttp://images.dailyme.com/assets/2009091000000571.jpg

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June, 2009: I got an iPhone.

Got an armband soon after so I could run & listen to ‘tunes, This American Life, etc…

*home-crafted ear buds that don’t pop out of my ears when I run!

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I soon discovered some apps that map my route

My Favorites

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…and they do a whole lot more

Mike, you’re going slower than usual today. Go home now & get your

kids onto the school bus. I’ll post this sorry

excuse for a run to Facebook & keep a

permanent record of it.

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Props to the creators of these apps

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The interfaces

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Typical accuracy level

GeneralizedCorner

Otherwise, the lines are usually straight & are even on the proper side of the street.

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What have I learned?

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Becoming a human penMy friend Leah commented on Facebook that she thought that this route looked like a bird

Naming the shape has since become a fun part of the morning routine.

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“GPS Art” has actually been around for a while

This person is one of the more prolific GPS artists out there

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Let’s play a game of “Name that Shape”

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Name that Shape

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Name that Shape

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Name that Shape

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Name that Shape

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Name that Shape

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Thanks for your time. See you on the road!

Mike [email protected]@MikeOlkin on Twitter

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