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I'd do it, but I'd use a gold cart or something much more lazy.

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And I would walk five-hundred miles

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That's a good error rate for the tracking. When I use GPS it's usually off by 20-30 feet.

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Five minutes of Photoshop can save you the long walk, which is probably what he did. Where is the independent jury confirming he walked all that mileage.

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did he put serifs on those letters?

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Original: http://www.gpsdrawing.com/maps/traverse-me.html

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Contemporary art if I ever saw it.

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The Globe, Book, Compass, and Graduation Cap move this from very cool to f**king awesome.

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From the Gizmodo comments, by rcs914:

This is what I was reminded of:

From Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon:

"The curbs are sharp and perpendicular, not like the American smoothly molded sigmoid-cross-section curves. The transition between the side walk and the street is a crisp vertical. If you put a green lightbulb on Waterhouse's head and watched him from the side during the blackout, his trajectory would look just like a square wave traced out on the face of a single-beam oscilloscope: up, down, up, down. If he were doing this at home, the curbs would be evenly spaced, about twelve to the mile, because his home town is neatly laid out on a grid.

Here in London, the street pattern is irregular and so the transitions in the square wave come at random-seeming times, sometimes very close together, sometimes very far apart.

A scientist watching the wave would probably despair of finding any pattern; it would look like a random circuit, driven by noise, triggered perhaps by the arrival of cosmic rays from deep space, or the decay of radioactive isotopes.

But if he had depth and ingenuity, it would be a different matter.

Depth could be obtained by putting a green light bulb on the head of every person in London and then recording their tracings for a few nights. The result would be a thick pile of graph-paper tracings, each one as seemingly random as the others. The thicker the pile, the greater the depth.

Ingenuity is a completely different matter. There is no systematic way to get it. One person could look at the pile of square wave tracings and see nothing but noise. Another might find a source of fascination there, an irrational feeling impossible to explain to anyone who did not share it. Some deep part of the mind, adept at noticing patterns (or the existence of a pattern) would stir awake and frantically signal the dull quotidian parts of the brain to keep looking at the pile of graph paper. The signal is dim and not always heeded, but it would instruct the recipient to stand there for days if necessary, shuffling through the pile of graphs like an autist, spreading them out over a large floor, stacking them in piles according to some inscrutable system, pencilling numbers, and letters from dead alphabets, into the corners, cross-referencing them, finding patterns, cross-checking them against others.

One day this person would walk out of that room carrying a highly accurate street map of London, reconstructed from the information in all of those square wave plots.

Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse is one of those people."

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Link directly to hi-res version for download\wallpaper.. (requires rotating for widescreen)
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/maps/traverse-me/images/traverse-me_a4.jpg

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Looks like God's Etch A Sketch. Let's hope he doesn't turn it upside down and shake it to erase.

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