Nov
2010
GPS Art
It’s a long boring story about how I came to draw this “P” on Monday the 29th, but I swear it wasn’t my intention to do so.
I originally headed south to Columbia, MO, and then a car problem caused me to have to head back home. Well, my dad met y mom and I in Macon, swapped cars with us, and as we were in desperate need of a stop at a Sam’s Club, we headed over to Quincy, IL. After I got home it crossed my mind what my Google Latitude history might look like.
For those of you unfamiliar with Latitude, it is a GPS service offered by Google that allows you to see friends around you and create a history of where you go. Due to my family’s extensive travelling, we have it turned on, but share it almost exclusively between ourselves. It’s a safety thing if we should break down somewhere or be in an accident. For fun, it’s just interesting to look back at where you’ve been, and sometimes you end up with cool designs … like a deformed “P”.
I’ve heard of people doing this on purpose, but it just isn’t something I would ever have time to do. If I hadn’t had a car break down, I wouldn’t have drawn this “P”, but hey, it’s something to take an interesting screenshot of.
