Mapping the postal network Nick Hill has sent out a GPS to someone through the post… and left the unit switched on to track where it went:
KristianThy December 19, 2006 at 22:07 How did the unit get a signal? Wasn’t it packaged, or did he just write the address on the unit’s screen with a speedmarker?
KristianThy December 19, 2006 at 22:32 How did the unit get a sat fix? Can you send unwrapped items with Royal Mail? 😉
dom December 20, 2006 at 15:23 Nice experiment, but the zoomed out map there doesn’t really tell us much 🙂 Having the .gpx file would be more interesting.
How did the unit get a signal? Wasn’t it packaged, or did he just write the address on the unit’s screen with a speedmarker?
How did the unit get a sat fix? Can you send unwrapped items with Royal Mail? 😉
Nice experiment, but the zoomed out map there doesn’t really tell us much 🙂 Having the .gpx file would be more interesting.