Cross-Greenland Ski Trip Tracked with Google Maps

notmartinfrobisher writes "Around Guardian Mobility offices we have been excited to support an exploratory ski trip across Greenland. Anne Marte Pensgaard is skiing across Greenland with only a friend and some husky dogs for company. She has been outfitted with one of our Tracer units which has a GPS receiver and send data to our backoffice through Globalstars Low-earth orbit satellite network. We're tracking her progress using Google Maps and using MyGMaps. to map multiple points onto Google Map's satellite imagery. When asked about her trip Anne Marte wrote: "Our expedition consist of two phases. This year we (Marit and myself and 12 greenland huskies) are going to find a passage into the inland ice (the icecap itself) where we will be able to bring all the dogs and our sledges up on the ice. We will start in Ilulissat on the west coast and then travel north.(around 70degrees N) How far north we will go this year depends on the conditions. Our main expedition will be a more than 1000 km trip from Ilulissat to Qaanaq (Thule Air Base) in the north, either in 2006 or in 2007." We provided her with a Tracer unit set up to wake up every 30 minutes but to transmit only when she has moved at least 200m, this way she won't have to worry about turning off the unit when she's camping at night. We'll be updating you on this exciting trip by posting maps of her current location every couple of days. Maps and satellite imagery are courtesy Google Maps."

Comments

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

I had to use Google Maps to make it through that paragraph.

Who cares....

[Anonymous Coward]

Really... nothing to see here... hike along

Someone should suggest that

[Mr Ambersand]

...to the president of Opera before he makes his big swim.

Re:Someone should suggest that

[fourtyfive]

I guess you didnt hear about this catastrophe... Dont ya hate it when the boat pops? Curiously it looks as if they were very close to shore... Like they hadn't left yet ;)

Speeding

[mollyhackit]

I hope those skis aren't rentals, they could issue her a ticket based on this data.

A giant leap for mankind

[LastNickAvailable]

Whow they used points on a map to track their progress ... What a mind blowing achievement!

I'm sorry but I can't find anything remotely interresting about this article.

Tracking Daughters

[tgrigsby]

After reading that article, I turned to my daughter and solemnly informed her that before she can date, I will not only make sure her car as OnStar, but I will have one of these handy dandy GPS units surgically implanted in her hip. Then I can track her on Google maps. She asked, why both? Because the car might be where she says she's going to go, but her butt might be at the beach party I told her she couldn't attend. Better safe than sorry.

Re:Tracking Daughters

[Motherfucking Shit]

I will not only make sure her car as OnStar, but I will have one of these handy dandy GPS units surgically implanted in her hip. Then I can track her on Google maps.

So can I, so I say go for it... :)

Re:Tracking Daughters

[DaneelGiskard]

Good idea. And by having it implanted in her hip you can also extrapolate what she is doing, by monitoring her hips movement. Hell, you can even call her and point out that based on the speed of her hip's movement she should have had an orgasm by now.

That should definitely give her a lesson ;-)

Thank you.

This should make it really easy...

[dos_dude]

... to find and recover the body.