In a talk titled “NearFar News Through Data”, Jer Thorp (The New York Times) introduced us to the clever OpenPaths service, an community project initiated by the Research and Development Lab at the New York Times Company. Using their mobile apps you can track your location, visualize where you’ve been, and upload your data to the OpenPaths website. You can then download your data from the website in a variety of friendly formats, including KML, JSON, and CSV.
Via openpaths.cc upload data to a central location, store it and engage in a transaction with researchers who want to use the data. Researchers can sign up and pitch a project, users sharing data then have the opportunity to share their valuable data and use it in a research project working on some cause. Some recent projects include: Tourists patterns in Spain, Mapping Habitual Geographies, and a Tiger-Tracker Project See https://openpaths.cc/
About OpenPaths – Using our mobile apps you can track your location, visualize where you’ve been, and upload your data to the OpenPaths website. You can then download your data from the website in a variety of friendly formats, including KML, JSON, and CSV. The OpenPaths API enables you to integrate your own software with the platform, and you can import data from location-based services like Foursquare. (Source: OpenPaths)
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