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How to Post your Dérive Report

January 18, 2018, by Moacir

Posting a dérive to this archive is the same exact process as posting to our Media Blog, in which case you should start by reminding yourself of the process for posting to the Media Blog. There is one significant addition, however, which is the result of each dérive’s including a map that indicates the path you’ve taken while on your dérive.

Hopefully you’ve completed all the steps on how to do a dérive and you’ve been directed to this page. Here, I’ll describe how to build your digital map like the one above.

First, you must convert every turn you make into a point by finding its coordinates using LatLong, which lets you click on the map and get the coordinates. Keep track of every vertex.

Next, you have to wrangle the metadata for your dérive post.

  1. You have to let the blogging software know that there should be a map. Do this by adding map: true to the metadata.

  2. Once you have each vertex (turning point) recorded, in order, you want to place them in a special metadata field called derive. For example, for the map you see in this post, the metadata is:

---
title: How to Post a Dérive
author: mds17 
map: true
derive:
  - [40.731035, -73.997506]
  - [40.730636, -73.997152]
  - [40.729002, -73.993784]
  - [40.728449, -73.994245]
  - [40.727124, -73.991616]
  - [40.725660, -73.992131]
  - [40.723920, -73.987947]
  - [40.724603, -73.987486]
  - [40.725612, -73.989878]
  - [40.724319, -73.990812]
  - [40.724912, -73.992303]
  - [40.722823, -73.993033]
---

Once the metadata is correctly entered, the blogging software will automatically convert that derive array of values into a path on the map. Note carefully the syntax:

  • Every vertex is introduced by two spaces and a hyphen:   -.
  • Every vertex is has the latitude first (around 40.7) and the longitude second (around -74.0).
  • Every vertex is surrounded by [] brackets.
  • The latitude and longitude are separated by commas.

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