GPS helps draw biggest painting in the world 110,664km long

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26 May 2008 12:00 GMT / By Stuart Miles

An artist not content with the average sized canvas has drawn the largest painting in the world using the world as his canvas.

Erik Nordenankar, painted the self portrait by putting a GPS device in a briefcase and then giving DHL a very detailed list of instructions on where to take it.

55 days later, and a picture measuring 40,076 x 40,009 miles was created.

According to Nordenankar the GPS automatically recorded the breifcase’s journey around the world and the information was downloaded to his computer to give him the co-ordinates to draw the picture.

The giant stroke passes through six continents and 62 countries.

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  • Hoax. GPS receivers do not work indoors or inside a box. Posted by jackson, Canada
  • It's a confirmed DHL promo. WHOIS the URL, google the company name you get. Posted by sockatume, UK
  • What pilot is going to loop the loop like that for what is hundreds of miles? Posted by Steve, United Kingdom
  • Modern GPS units can work in a brief case, you are so last year. Get with the times. Posted by Me, UK
  • Gee, guess he had better luck than I did, DHL freaking LOST a 37 pound box I shipped to California from Iowa, tracking showed it arrived at their terminal and that was it, gone never to be found. IDIOTS!!!!!!!! Posted by Randy, usa

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