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GPS Drawings

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-to-waste-some-time dept.

With all the less then happy things happening, I thought I'd share a link sent in by mustafap. The site is GPS Drawing, and the idea is to record your path driving around with a GPS signal, and then graph the results to draw pictures. It's fun seeing the routes superimposed on maps. Simple and fun. I hope you enjoy it too.

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  1. Taxi drivers? by Quasar1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we use this against taxi drivers, the next morning when we sober up and realize that fastest route from the bar to our house was not the 45 mile route the driver took...???

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  2. So how long... by mmontour · · Score: 4, Funny

    So how long until one of the slashdot trolls starts posting a GPS drawing of that goatse guy?

  3. Dangerous Information by Myriad · · Score: 3, Funny
    At the end of all the time, use the (x,y) cords and divide the city into 4 quadants and start to make equations of where you have been....try and see where you are most likely to be..... see what times you are most likely to be where, etc...

    Let me get this straight... you want to hand your girl-friend 3D graphical evidence that you weren't working late, that you've actually been drinking with your buddies at the bar again?

    All I can say is: Bad, bad plan.

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  4. New contest! by phraktyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kudos to the first person to drive around their country to spell First Post with their GPS system.

    Other allowed GPS path contest entries would include: Beowulf, Natelie Portman and JohnKatz Sucks.

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  5. Animals? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Has anyone ever tried this on a cat or something?

    I always wondered just what they are up to when I see a cat, whos owner lives a block or two from my house, walk by my front door....

    -Justin

  6. Wait a Minute by nihilogos · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought my girlfriend said she was going to the movies. There's no cinema there.

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  7. Re:Woud this let me track my cat's daily wandering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your graph would consist of a single point which is where that cat sleeps all day every day!