Man ran 700 miles to make ‘insanely impressive’ art on GPS fitness app

"The video is only 27 seconds long, but it took Duncan McCabe 10 months — and about 700 miles — to make it.

McCabe, an avid runner and animation enthusiast, set out on a journey in January to create a now-viral TikTok of a dancing stick figure. He made it using the popular GPS-tracking app Strava, which connects runners, cyclists, hikers and walkers and allows them to record their routes.

Using Strava’s map function, McCabe recorded 120 runs — and when he strung each of the maps together, it revealed a hat-wearing stick figure dancing to the song “Purple Hat” across the streets of Toronto..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...impressive-art-on-gps-fitness-app/ar-AA1v8z2A

 

It is impressive. It is certainly more effort than I would put into something like that.

 

Very creative. I'm guessing the early developers of GPS tech and even developers of GPS apps never foresaw people using it in this way.