GPS Maps & Personal Cartography
GPS tracks over London, England - Jeremy Wood 2006
UK GPS Flights 2007
USA GPS Flights 2007
In-flight GPS
Flight Map 2004 (Centred on North Pole)
The GPS maps are compilations of all of my tracks on water, over land and in the air. As cartographic journals they recollect moments and patterns of my life. They are delineations of my movements as recorded by GPS and represent the everyday journey alongside travels that avoid the functional and the familiar. The maps contribute towards an ongoing investigation into digital mark making. They form a body of work that seeks to capture expressions of travel as personal cartography. Amongst the routine routes are many elaborate diversions such as pictorial walking, silly cycling, wrong-driving, boat doodling, and all sorts of fancy flying. Within the tracks we make are expressive qualities that are personalized in the detail. As our actions and movements become increasingly monitored and stored in bureaucratic data farms, we must assess the value and usage of this information. Our banks, shops, phones companies, governments and more are collecting data that could create spectacular visualizations of our lives. Personal cartography intercepts this salty thirst for consumer generated data by taking charge of its representation. Jeremy Wood |
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Flight Map 2004
Commercial airline
holding-patterns over London