Over the last year a new use for GPS has emerged that developers could never have expected.

Prompted by a Nokia publicity-seeking stunt (see www.theworldismycanvas.com), users around the world have been using GPS-equipped smartphones to create so-called ‘Position Art’, using the tracklog generated by the software, overlaid onto a map or satellite image, to ‘draw’ a cartoon image in real time

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