Man Creates World’s Largest Message Using GPS and 12K+ Miles of Driving
Here’s a method of scrawling gigantic messages that puts skywriting to shame: Nick Newcomen spent 30 days driving 12,238 miles across 30 states in a GPS-logger equipped car, tracing the message “Read Ayn Rand” across the face of the United States. Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist and philosopher who write two bestselling books (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) and introduced a philosophy called Objectivism.
After the road trip, he loaded the location data from the logger (a Qstarz BT-Q1000X) into Google Earth to produce the end result: the world’s biggest writing.
A while back, a Swedish artist named Erik Nordenenkar claimed to have created the following drawing using a GPS-equipped packaged shipped via DHL, and stating that it was the biggest in the world:
Afterward, he admitted that it was a fictional work.