my iPhone's been secretly recording every place i've been for the last year...

And impressively, all without GPS. What you're seeing is cell tower data, stored locally on my laptop when i backup my phone. The software locates your phone's backup files & displays it's location history. Pretty creepy. And yeah, kinda beautiful at the same time.

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Zooming in closer to San Fransico, you can see how accurate it is with all the tiny trails mapping hundreds of photo excusions.

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if you're on a Mac, track yourself with iPhone Tracker: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/