GPS city tracing.
January 24, 2003 9:13 AM Subscribe
Give a group of Amsterdamers a GPS tracking device for a couple of months, plot their movements over a black background, and the resulting traces map the city through the movements of its inhabitants. Alternately, make your own GPS art, or play GPS Hide and Seek.
my word, I thought geocaching was incredibly geeky until I saw your GPS drawing link. I feel better now.
posted by Vidiot at 9:53 AM on January 24, 2003
posted by Vidiot at 9:53 AM on January 24, 2003
GPS drawing seems a little like being a part of a life-sized Etch-A-Sketch. I particularly liked the Brighton Boat...very clever.
posted by filmgoerjuan at 3:47 PM on January 24, 2003
posted by filmgoerjuan at 3:47 PM on January 24, 2003
I live on the rear deck of that boat. ahoy there!
posted by gravelshoes at 3:57 PM on January 24, 2003
posted by gravelshoes at 3:57 PM on January 24, 2003
The GPS art is oddly reminiscent of a short story by Paul Auster ('City of Glass' from The New York Trilogy), in which a private investigator traces the daily wanderings of the old man he has been assigned to observe, and finds that each day he is tracing out a letter in the streets of Manhattan.
There are diagrams in the book that look *just* like those GPS art words. I believe the book was written around 1985. Strange foreshadowing!
posted by chrismear at 1:08 PM on January 25, 2003
There are diagrams in the book that look *just* like those GPS art words. I believe the book was written around 1985. Strange foreshadowing!
posted by chrismear at 1:08 PM on January 25, 2003
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