Th beginning of the year is an exciting time for my work. It is when I take the time to update all my databases. It takes several long days of data entry to get them all up to date last week I transcribed 4,419 latitude and longitude entries from my pencil on paper logbook to Excel. The transcriptions involve typing in separate cells for degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude, degrees, minutes and seconds of longitude, and elevation. The formulas I have written over the years compute other information I need from those inputs - decimalized latitude and longitude, a time code, and global coordinates for plotting on a sphere.
Here are all my travels in North America for 2010 (and the first two weeks of 2011):
(Long straight lines are flights)
The view below includes all movements I have recorded in North America since I started the project in 1999 (and including a separate year 1996-1997). This view does not include air travel. 2010 is represented by orange lines.
The view below starts to zooms in on the midwest:
Finally a detail of Champaign-Urbana Illinois:
Click on any image for a larger view
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