Make Your Own Unimpressive GPS Art

It started a couple of weeks ago with Erik Nordenenkar's claim to have created a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-equipped device to various points on the map, recording DHL's flight paths along the way. Though later revealed as fiction, it's the hot new trend in nerd art. Antti Laitinen does it for real, producing what Wired's Dylan Tweney called "A self-portrait of the artist as a drunken psychotic." Engadget declares "Get 'em in quick folks, your 15 minutes are almost up. How to follow in their footsteps before Mr. Warhol calls you in?

By cheating, of course, with our easy, one-size-fits-all Unimpressive GPS Art generator. Click and drag to draw! Maps backgrounds are random. Reload to get either Earth itself or one of a selection of the most unpleasant and forbidding locales known to mankind: Mars, Chernobyl and Nottingham.

[#1 posted by Doomstalk , June 2, 2008 9:42 AM]

Finally I can realize my dream of a geotagged goatse man!

[#2 posted by Rob Beschizza , June 2, 2008 10:54 AM]

And you wonder why we didn't include an image upload form!

[#3 posted by dbarak , June 2, 2008 1:00 PM]

I tired a GPS art project, assigning color spectrum to speed of the package and grayscale to the altitude of the package. This is what I came up with:

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/1325/artuh6.jpg

[#4 posted by dbarak , June 2, 2008 1:09 PM]

>> tired

I tried one, too. : )

[#5 posted by Simon Greenwood , June 3, 2008 1:38 AM]

Excuse me, I'm from Nottingham, and it's a lovely place. Nobody got shot there yesterday.