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I’ve had a productive morning researching various leads developed out of GPS drawing. Jeremy Wood and Hugh Prior seem to have received quite a bit of attention for what they’ve been up to, which is great. There’s a great link to an article in Made magazine for how to make a GPS drawing. I wish I was more interested in some of the drawings they’ve produced, most are quite banal- like the Brighton Elephant. However, Jeremy Wood’s map GPS Tracks Over London is very beautiful.

Somehow I got a reference to Timo Arnall, a designer based out of Oslo, and his blog elasticspace opened up some exciting ideas for me about Near Field Communications (NFC) which links RFID objects with mobile telephones. He links to a mapping RFID project. The weblog for this project is Touch, which features link to a research project the Lisa Smith is working on out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.