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Thursday Afternoon Diversion: GPS Coolness

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Sep 3, 2009 8:00PM

For five years, one bike rider tracked his movements via GPS as he rode all over Toronto. The resulting map is like an etch-a-sketch of awesome. Now we're waiting for someone to do this with Chicago. Joe M500? Chuck? Anyone? I'd do it, but it would simply track my movements between my house and the ice cream place a few blocks away. [via]