Part sport, part art, GPS drawing lets runners, walkers, cyclists and hikers imagine themselves anew — not just as a collection of burning muscles, sweaty armpits, forward motion; not just as people endeavoring to crest a hill or lose five pounds. Instead, they are neo-cartographers, jumbo-size doodlers and bipedal pencils, mapping their track lines across cities, roads and farms, and sharing them online.Estas son algunas de las fotos que publicó el NYT.


El término "GPS Drawing", dibujando con GPS lo acuño un artista inglés que creó además el sitio gpsdrawing.com.
Como en cierta forma dice el último párrafo del artículo, cada loco con su tema:
“They probably thought I was up to no good,” she said. When onlookers asked what she was doing, she ignored them — civility a small sacrifice for the sake of a clean line. “You can’t stop,” she said. “It messes up the track. You get this blob of data points.”Fuentes:
She likes that with a GPS device she can reimagine a landscape so imbued with history, patriotism and war. “Do we need to see what the U.S. Park Service wants us to see?” she asked. “Or can we see what we want to see?”
The Big Draw of a GPS Run.
gpsdrawing.com
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