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My Strava Activities from the Same Place at the Same Time Animated

All of my activities from Strava if they started from the same place at the same time.

Strava Activites Animated

Longest activity time wise is an 11 hour walk.

Distance wise is a 200km helicopter ride.

Includes a couple of 100km cycles. But mainly walks on the beach, 5 km runs, and 10km cycles.

You can see the patterns from a number of locations that I have lived in.

Download your activities from Strava.
Parse them into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database with Python: https://github.com/HeikkiVesanto/StravaGarminParser/blob/master/parser_points_to_db.py
Process the points to time series in the database: https://gist.github.com/HeikkiVesanto/3fbd55cda45394d069773a34ea244e4b
Create animation in QGIS using the atlas generator.

This is a look at how the map of the Dublin tram network, the Luas (Irish for speed), compares to the actual geographic footprint.

For a simpler view:

The processing of the transition is done in PostgreSQL with PostGIS, with the final animation in QGIS.