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Step-by-step creation tool for GPS Mission. Use GPS mission to create a mission for students (can be used on phones or tablets) with instructions, clues and maps. Also useful for creating history walks with photographs of before and after shots of locations (you need to sign up to upload photographs). 

US teacher tracks his bike rides by GPS - and creates some stunning artwork (+ gallery) A man in Baltimore, Maryland, is using pedal power to turn maps of the city into art, tracing pictures of his journeys round the city by using his GPS-enabled phone.

"If you decide to visit somewhere you've never been before, how do you find your way? If you're in a car, the driver might use a GPS. You might use a smartphone app to give you directions. Perhaps you might go really 'old school' and use a printed map or street directory. But how did explorers navigate their way around the globe over 200 years ago?"