To highlight the XDRTB.org campaign, DEMOS and moblog have devised a unique blend of Puzzle solving, Mobile blogging and geolocation that creates a web first. If you are in London, definitely get out and participate in spreading the story.
GPSdrawing is “digital mark-making with satellite navigation technology”. What they are doing is using map markers to draw a macro image on a google map rather than one single line drawn using a Tom Tom or other navigator.
The markers each contain and represent a media “node” at which a piece of media has been posted that has a direct relationship to the macro image that is being drawn.
They are inviting people to hunt out the 43 objects they have scattered over London and post them to the site. People will create this macro GPS artwork through solving clues to find the objects, photographing them and then uploading them to the site with mapping co-ordinates provided on the object, and at 43 participating blogs.
Each of the objects contains a letter, and when each marker has been uploaded all of the letters together spell out a question. Participants are invited to work out what that question is with the first person to correctly submit the 43 character phrase wins the game; prizes are from Moo.com and include a high end Nokia phone, as well as two tickets to James Nachtwey’s launch party on the 30th of October.
Using map markers to create macro artworks on web maps is a novel and unique innovation in GPS drawing. In combination with a simple and accessible puzzle style gameplay and mobile blogging, they hope that this idea will spread far and wide, creating a new form of self or group expression, and create a new audience for casual city games.
The URL for this project is: http://moblog.net/map/blog/findme/