Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS

meiocyte writes: "This New Scientist story about leaving messages in empty space seems very cool. You upload a message (or perhaps a picture, audio clip, etc.), it gets tagged with your GPS coordinates, and then anyone else who goes there gets to see/hear it. Every GPS-resolvable parcel of empty space will have its own web site!" Combine this with user-forums, and restaurant ratings could take on a whole new dimension. Update: 01/20 23:28 GMT by T : Oops -- looks like I duped Michael. Sorry.

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pirates!

[lowtekneq]

Yar ho ho, maybe i can use it to hide my Mp3/divx booty! X marks the spot. Kinda wierd how history repeats itself (in a way)

Here's hoping they make a nice API for this!

[khaladan]

int lat = 0;
int long = 0;

while(1) {
for(lat = 0; lat < 360; lat++) {
for(long = 0; long < 360; long++) {

GPS_printf(lat, long, "ALL YOUR COORDINATES ARE BELONG TO US!!!\n");

}
}
}

Re:Didn't we see this

[Zeinfeld]

Yes, the slashcrew got together one night at one of their debauched drinking sessions. After swigging a six pack of jolt apiece they started talking about nerdish hobbies, like hacking an XBox to run linux, or hacking a dishwasher to run linux, or running linux on a snowblower.

The cafeine laden air was then pierced by a cry, "lets invent the dorkiest, nerdiest hobby ever and use slashdot to persuade people to do it!".

Their first idea was to have people stand at airports and train stations taking the numbers of the trains as they pass. Then someone did a search on Google (which runs Linux) and found that 'trainspoting' has been thought of already, they even found a Web site giving advice on the best model of parker to wear while doing it.

The GPS drawing idea was the result. $3 Billion dollars of orbiting infrastructure and they use it to make an etch-a-sketch.

The more time people who do that kind of thing can be persuaded to do that kind of thinginstead of finding members of the opposite sex and procreating the happier I feel about the future of the world.