Out of Eden Walk Enriched GPS data

The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic project that aims to create a global record of human life at the dawn of a new millennium, as told by people who rarely make the news—villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the project is led by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Salopek, who is retracing the path of human migration around the world. Along his journey, Paul documents his experiences through writing, photographs, videos, and audio. To date, his walking route has logged 18.8 million GPS locations from Ethiopia to China using a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver. These GPS points are enriched with various data using ArcGIS Pro and KNIME Analytics software, including travel mode, country, nearest milestone, collection mode, date, time, longitude, latitude, slope, elevation, population density, land cover, and nearest village.