Joggers in UK may have the advantage

I came across this ingenious jogger today: Jeric Yeun deliberates draws pictures with his GPS tracker:


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He's doing it to raise awareness and funds for Spinal research (here for a donation). I think given the ruler straight roads in the US it might be a bit trickier to achieve nice pictures - now there's a challenge!

That takes a lot of imagination or mathematical skills.  I wonder how he manages to figure that out.

That's awesome work! I love it!

Wouldn't be complicated to figure out. Take a map of the city (and yeah, London has lots of little streets at weird angles to work with) doodle what you want to draw, then start looking for streets that go where you want to go. Make notes for yourself "turn left on Oak, right on Elm, cut through the alley by the butcher's to get to Maple.." etc. Wouldn't be difficult.

In the US you'd have to look at it like drawing with an Etch a Sketch, where you can only go 90 degree angles, but it's still doable.

Awesome work!!  I hope he's raising a lot of money :D

There are no ruler straight roads, in some parts of the USA (like in/ around lakes, rivers, hills, & mountains), and yet there are other parts that are very much ruler-esque. It's kind of scary, when folks used to being on those ruler-roads try to drive on the crazy ones, but I don't think the crazy ones would be any easier than the rulers, though. In fact, in Kentucky, when you ask the country folks, "how do I get to ____ from here, please?" They'll almost invariably respond with, "Well, you can't get there, from here! You have to go to ____ first,  then go to ____. THEN, you might be able to get there." In places like that, you'd have to go off-roading, to draw pics, with your GPS tracker, lol.

Heh, looks like Boston, but what do you expect... the same Brits following "cow paths" over here! Even have "Middlesex Street" as a common street name around here (NW of Boston is Middlesex County).
I think our fish would look more like a cod.

I was in Europe years ago - some of the old cities would be awesome for it! Most of them were on rivers for transportation, and rivers and straight lines just don't go together!