For a lot of people who pedal their direction through busy city street , cycle is about getting from Point A to Point B , you know , without getting hit by a car . Stephen Lund , however , turns his two - wheeled treks into art – enormous , citywide scrabble painted by GPS trailing , that is .
Lund first experimented with GPS doodling ahead of time on the first light of New Year ’s Day 2015 , when he bike a way spelling " Happy 2015 ! " through the streets of Victoria , Canada , harmonize to his internet site . Since then , he ’s used the Strava peregrine app to make several expectant - shell doodles of things likea giraffe , a stegosaurus , Darth Vader , Gandalf the Grey , and evenQueen Elizabeth , among other doodles .
As you may see on the maps , creating the city - sized drawings want Lund to cycle tremendous distance . For exemplar , he biked more than 100 sea mile to make out the aforesaid Gandalf doodle . Here ’s how he discover the procedure in ablog postearlier this summer :
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" Completing my GPS scribble of Gandalf required 168 klick ( 105 naut mi ) of cycling – 88 kilometer ( 55 mi ) on roadstead and pathway directly in the doodle , and another 80 km ( 50 mi ) of cycle to ' connect the dots ' for the straight argument of Gandalf ’s staff and a few other details for which suitable road merely did n’t be . "
Lund provide several examples of his GPS doodles , and they ’re passably bloody impressive :
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