I'm a big fan of walking. I had to quit running because of my knees, so walking and hiking became my new exercise, when I lived in NYC, I would average 100 miles per week, when I moved up state, a lot less, but still 50-60 miles per week, and then I moved to back to Texas last week and now I feel like it will be closer to 20 miles a week if that. I live on a major road, there aren't many places to walk around me, so might end up in the Apartment gym on a treadmill staring at the wall for my morning, lunch, and dinner walks.
I use CityStrides to map my runs, it makes an automatic lifemap from my running app I use on my phone (runkeeper): <a href="https://citystrides.com/" rel="nofollow">https://citystrides.com/</a><p>Even without colours Neds maps have some nice esthetic to it.
That’s a lot of walks!<p>Is there an app that will generate walking routes, so you visit different streets each time?<p>If I wanted to develop something like this, where would I start?
Did the same, no cloud, plotting on top of open street maps, automated logging.<p>Excerpt from the result (don't want to disclose where exactly I live): <a href="https://i.imgur.com/FPyRAkA.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/FPyRAkA.png</a><p>My setup for it:<p><pre><code> - andoid app tasker (checking if I loose wifi, in that case start GPSlogger)
- android app GPSlogger does the logging, set to relatively coarse in hopes to save battery)
- and visualize on my computer with this python script http://sethoscope.net/heatmap/ (with a custom gradient that has no transparency. I want to see where I've been just once too.
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You can also render it on android with GPX Viewer but loading takes a long time once you got a bunch of tracks.<p>It's tough on your phones battery though. I think I pushed my aging one over the edge with it.
Its interesting to see that Ned never walked through the esplanade. He's walked right up to the edge and always turns away. It's not that much further than some of his other walks. Overall it looks like he's avoiding the back bay area entirely.<p>This is interesting b/c the esplanade is a pedestrian park with some beautiful water areas and bridges, its prime walking area.
Is there any program/app that could automate this, not just for runs but constantly? It's all being tracked anyway, so I might as well at least get a map of which streets I've walked out of it.
I used to live very close to where all the walks start. I would say it’s one of the best places to start exploring Boston. That is, along the Emerald Necklace.