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The AI turned my 13 year old rally tracker file into a 3D globe in 20 minutes

He found the GPX file from his 2013 Mongol Rally, 437 kilobytes with 2,226 track points and 98 check in messages. After a flat map first to check the data, three rounds of prompting with AI turned it into an interactive 3D globe with every message pinned where it was sent and 99 photos placed along the 11,138 km route.

How it works

  1. Exported and checked the GPX data: 98 waypoints with messages and 2,226 ten minute track points, Built a flat 2D map first so he could check every message and photo placement, Placed photos by timestamp against the track, with an honest label on each photo saying which rule placed it, Then built the 3D globe as one folder he can upload anywhere, with the route, messages and photos in it

Why it’s worth knowing

A dead tracker file became a trip the whole group can replay day by day, and the globe admits on each photo when the tracker was off and the spot is a best guess.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reizoko.jp. See the original ↗

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