Regular readers will have worked-out by now that I am a sucker for art and fun in the hands of the people, and this is a new one on me.

The basic technique of GPS Drawing is to use a mapping, track-recording GPS to plot out your movement, in a given place, over a given time period, and then upload the tracks into a computer and then plot the tracks in 2D or (better) 3D.

In short: find a large open area and you become the point of a really big GPS-driven Etch-A-Sketch!

They generally start simple, like the guy who traced-out an eight mile high ‘dollar’ sign in Las Vegas and then rapidly progress into a series of enormous virtual chalk drawings:

• The Brighton Elephant
• …and the nearby Brighton Boat
• The Oxford Don
• The Thai Taxi Mosquito
• The Virtual Uffington White Horse
• Maize Maze Mapping

…but then it branches out into space where etch-a-sketch cannot go, with:

• GPS Hill Drawing
• Wingfest Skydiving
• Basejumping
• Where to eat in Fargo
• Contour mapping the Devil’s Ditch
• Where Jeremy Wood Went In 2004 (Including Flights)

The really good bit is: you don’t have to turn the planet upside down and shake it really hard, to erase where you’ve been.

That would be bad.

[www.gpsdrawing.com]