A crop-dusting aircraft's graceful, looping route over
Russian farmland is tracked by the pilot's GPS, resulting in a
beautiful map you won't see anywhere else.
This aerial concoction is one of many by custom map-maker MapBox,
which has developed a way to overlay the world's largest trove of
open-sourced GPS data – submitted over nine years to the free wiki Open Street Map – on top of aerial imagery to create beautiful, traveller-friendly maps.
Mapbox's GPS routes are colour-coded by
the course of travel, with each direction given its own hue, to help
future users verify one-way streets, roads not displayed on traditional
maps or, in this case, display one aircraft's vivid rainbow path across
the sky.
