As reported by the News Scientist: 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, traveler-friendly
maps.
Mapbox's GPS routes are color-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.
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