As a pedantic LOGger..(of course) i keep GPS-tracking as my personal obligation. I started to track my everyday travellings on the 9th of October, 2007 with a bicycle trainer GPS (no advertisement:) G*rmin Edge 205). On the first sight i found it compulsory important to use it all time, when i step out to the streets on foot, by bike, by taxi or car, or even train, ship or plane..
I upload my performed routes onto GoogleEarth (i make kml file of them which is downloadable from here) I use different colors for presenting my routes taken by different methods. It is color-code. Walked routes are white, routes i biked are orange, routes taken by fast -surface- vehicles are vivid green and routes by Public Transport are blue (Budapest's Transport Company in hungarian: "Budapesti Közlekedési Vállalat" [BKV]).
An other project of mine is connected to this corporation. That's the "BKW-Marathon" project, which means that me and some of my travel-mates in a limited sort of time (4, 8, 12 or 24 hours)have to collect as many kilometers as we can by travelling only on mass transport vehicles in Budapest (so the "BKV" related buses, trams, trolleys). No exception is allowed. I cannot travel on subway-system trains or metro because of the lack of satellite connection under the ground. Maybe this kind of "accomodation" looks like boring at first shot but if we get deeper into it and try it, the main advantages are get out to the surface. On the first 1-2 hour you are -maybe- absorbed/upthight, or mugged. Standing or sitting beetween dozens of stranger people, cruising with no destination can be upsetting at first, but after a few hours you start to enjoy the aimlessness and start to enjoy the incoherent flow of time. I mean, without any destination/target/purpose/intention our brain changes to a different method of computing", it starts to process the inputs only of the proximate environment what we senses and starting to feel interesting everything which happens in that newly changed micro-environment (remember we are on the board of a bus..) the people, the noises, the lights, and the change of there factors.
You can see it on Google Earth by clicking HERE !
I upload my performed routes onto GoogleEarth (i make kml file of them which is downloadable from here) I use different colors for presenting my routes taken by different methods. It is color-code. Walked routes are white, routes i biked are orange, routes taken by fast -surface- vehicles are vivid green and routes by Public Transport are blue (Budapest's Transport Company in hungarian: "Budapesti Közlekedési Vállalat" [BKV]).
An other project of mine is connected to this corporation. That's the "BKW-Marathon" project, which means that me and some of my travel-mates in a limited sort of time (4, 8, 12 or 24 hours)have to collect as many kilometers as we can by travelling only on mass transport vehicles in Budapest (so the "BKV" related buses, trams, trolleys). No exception is allowed. I cannot travel on subway-system trains or metro because of the lack of satellite connection under the ground. Maybe this kind of "accomodation" looks like boring at first shot but if we get deeper into it and try it, the main advantages are get out to the surface. On the first 1-2 hour you are -maybe- absorbed/upthight, or mugged. Standing or sitting beetween dozens of stranger people, cruising with no destination can be upsetting at first, but after a few hours you start to enjoy the aimlessness and start to enjoy the incoherent flow of time. I mean, without any destination/target/purpose/intention our brain changes to a different method of computing", it starts to process the inputs only of the proximate environment what we senses and starting to feel interesting everything which happens in that newly changed micro-environment (remember we are on the board of a bus..) the people, the noises, the lights, and the change of there factors.
You can see it on Google Earth by clicking HERE !
This is the first (half) month of my GPS-diary from the 9th of October, 2007. Well (eh) when i first tried out the GPS, i was so 'corned it was the "Whoah, lets ride ..cruise all of the city, and get all point marked" feeling.. I went out to cycle at dawn to collect some new route-drawings for my GoogleEarth layer because i cannot waiot till sun sets %).. But, ok after 1-2 (3) days my exaltation has given up, and i started to track my routes as normal, i went somewhere if only i had to, and not for drawing new lines with GPS..
On this picture you can see three main colours of routes. Orange one is the bicycle routes as i said, my first expansive tours. Budapest has lot of adventures for the brave bikers, but the downtown requests the same skills as cyclist have in Nu-York or London or even Bangladesh %)..So that's why i chosen the low-hills of Buda in the suburbs of the 12th district for my peace :) (it's the green- and high-budget residental area of Budapest). The only green route is the trainway from Budapest to Miskolc* city (my hometown..north-east Hungary, with some stalker/chernobyl like post socialist abandoned industrial areas and blocks [thanks to the close of all socialist industires]) Blue routes are my Public Transport uses from Buda to Pest, mainly buses.. The straight blue lines are metro lines.. It shows only the starting point of the metro-travel where i go underground to the station and lost the satellite sign and the end station, where i go up to the surface again..
October, 2007November, 2007 then it seems i gave up bicycling (i got two punctures in one wheel and that was enough for me to not to repair it till spring,2008..) So that the blue routes are much more than the prev.month, thanks to my first BKW-Marathon, when me and s0phie tavelled for 8 hours, and 39minutes, continuously using 23 vehicles, for 164kilometers with an average speed of (!) 19km/hour .. for more click here
Novembre, 2007December,2007, yeah, Public Transport usage is on top1 place again, i managed to do the 2Nd BKW-Marathon with s0phie (...) There are two green routes in this month, i went to miskolc city to check my Mother and Grandmother for 1-2times and i went to visit s0phie's family ("the first time") in Gyöngyös city by coach bus system named "VOLÁN".
Decembre, 2007
January, 2008
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