Creative use of iPhone GPS
Apple have seen some criticism of the lack of turn by turn GPS functionality. Well one Northern Ireland reader has certainly come up with a very creative use of the iPhone’s GPS features. A number of years ago a Peace Maze was created in Castlewellan Forest park in County Down. The maze is simply massive.
Dimensions
Ground area – 11,000m2 (2.7 acres or 1.1 hectares)
Hedge Length – 3550 m (over 2miles!)
Path length – 3147 m (almost 2 miles)
Path width – (1.8m) and lower than usual hedges (1.5m) are aimed at encouraging communication between visitors.
The maze is an area of 2.7 acres planted with 6,000 Yew trees, forming the largest hedge maze in the world. The time taken to solve the puzzle of the maze will vary but the average time should be about 40 minute. The maze was officially opened by the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, Mrs Brid Rodgers, on 12th September 2001.
The Peace Maze is now officially the largest permanent hedge maze in the world. Well it can be a bit of a challenge but not when you have the trusty iPhone 3G with Google Maps and GPS. Check out the screen shot below. Photo also available on a new iPhone GPS Photo group on Flickr
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