{"id":368,"date":"2008-05-27T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-05-27T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T10:39:51","slug":"a-drawing-made-from-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/a-drawing-made-from-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"A drawing made from dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Register<\/a> about a Swede called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/27\/biggest_drawing\/\">Erik Nordenankar who decided to &#8220;paint&#8221; the world&#8217;s largest painting<\/a> by packing a GPS in a suitcase and tracking where it goes then download the data and let the computer show the track with a line. Thus, by sending the bag in a creative way he&#8217;ll end up with a self portrait of GPS tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the same GPS technology that already has problems indoors of very many buildings? The GPS system that I bet will have a very hard time to function when flown around inside the luggage compartment of a modern jet airplane? I have a feeling that drawing will mostly be a lot of dots to draw lines between&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, this is a publicity stunt made by DHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article at The Register about a Swede called Erik Nordenankar who decided to &#8220;paint&#8221; the world&#8217;s largest painting by packing a GPS in a suitcase and tracking where it goes then download the data and let the computer show the track with a line. Thus, by sending the bag in a creative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/a-drawing-made-from-dots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A drawing made from dots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-gps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}