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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. Re:And don't forget crop circles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unaltered data would be kind of useless because maps are intentionally made to be incorrect. So if you crossed a bridge and later overlayed the GPS track over a map, you'd be going over the middle of the river about a 1/4 mile away from where the bridge really is. It's not exactly informative as to where you actually were.

  2. Re:how cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ExpertGPS will show your GPS track superimposed on aerial photos anywhere in the USA. http://www.expertgps.com [expertgps.com]

  3. Re:Other program by brucehoult · · Score: 4, Informative
    In fact we glider pilots have been doing this for nearly a decade now. The world championships in New Zealand in 1995 were judged using GPS flight records (I was one of the scorers), as has every world champtionship since -- and most local and national contests too.

    Here are the results of that contest. In the daily score sheets each flight is linked to the GPS log of that flight, so anyone can analyse the flying style and tactics of world champion pilots. You need a free program to view these files.

    Here are some examples of good glider flights made in the USA, such as a 500 km flight at an average speed of 247 km/h (153 mph). Without an engine!

  4. Re:Woud this let me track my cat's daily wandering by jonr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the Garmin eTrex are pretty small, and I recall a Seiko or something GPS watch...