Thursday, August 20. 2009

GPS Drawing Ten Years Later

The New York Times "Style" section hosts an article on the latest in what I know as GPS drawing - that is, navigating on earth so as to draw an interesting picture when the GPS captured route is viewed on a map. The term, created by Jeremy Wood is nearly a decade ago. He hosts gpsdrawing.com, where I first heard about the practice.

There are those who do it for fun, to raise money for charity and then there's this: "Last fall, researchers from the University of Arizona took members of the school’s nutrition club to a football field with GPS units to walk outlines of images with fitness and health-related themes — a carrot with a bushy top, a flexed bicep, a fish. As part of a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Agriculture, the researchers plan to use GPS drawing to help fight obesity by luring children into fitness with technology."

- Hat tip to reader Duane for the link

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation, Health at 07:02 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |