loud, loud, calm - a noise diary through potsdam

The aim of this project was to visualize noise in Potsdam that were recorded during my daily bike routes. I developed this little map in the Mapping zebras class during the project weeks.

Tracking and Sound

This Map uses location and geodata, to visualize the noise-pollution on my occasionally driven tracks in Potsdam. To measure the data I used my Phone with the help of a decibel-measuring app as well as the Komoot app to track my location.

implementation - processing

With the help of a code I put all the data into a CSV-file. This file was later imported into a processing sketch and visualized with the help of [unfolding](http://unfoldingmaps.org/ „unfolding“), a processing plugin for map- and geovisualization. I mapped the noise-level to the width of the path. With this method the picture reflects the function nicely, because the path looks pretty much like a sound-wave.

The results looked like this:

Because I wasn't able to upload the result into an interactive online map, I decided to do a second implementation with the help of carto db, which was pretty easy from this point.

The results can be seen on the following website: http://julianlucas.de/loud/

Fazit and thanks!

Thanks to Prof. Marian Doerk, Alsino Skowronnek and Till Nagel who gave the class and me a great introduction into the world of mapping. It definitely wasn't the last time I'll apply the tools and the experience I learned in these 2 weeks. A special thanks to Till Nagel who helped me so much to get the data sorted and merged properly. Thanks for this great script, and for sharing your processing skills with me. I really learned a lot from you.