Geo Art: Maps and Logs

I love a good bit of geo-art, i.e. caches placed strategically so that when seen from above they make up a pattern. Normally this is done by using puzzles. The real coordinates are elsewhere but unsolved they make up a pretty question mark, smiley face or some other motif. Here are some of the ones I've seen on the maps...

A very nice big smiley face which is even better when made up of lots of little smileys!

This is quite commonplace: a series of puzzles in the shape of a question mark!

Seattle is home to a set of puzzles which form the peace sign. They are over water, presumably to stand out more, but I believe the caches are on terra firma! 

We had a couple of sets of Olympic rings pop up around the time London hosted the Olympics. Weymouth's have gone now but these still remain in Sussex.

What I find even more impressive though is when the caches are not puzzles but someone has carefully found the right place to put a series so that traditionals can be used instead. That means that when you find the caches you will actually trace out the shape of whatever it is. My favourite examples are in the United States. Clearly the desert is a good place to get your caches where you need them without the problem of housing, water etc.!

The ET Highway power trail in Nevada.

Kokopelli formation in Utah.

A very nice fighter plane. The guns were all Letterbox Hybrids but from a distance they look the same as Traditionals.

Geo-art extends to beyond cache maps, however. I've seen some pretty impressive flags on people's logs. Notably on the 2,000,000th published cache - people from all over the world were sending their congratulations and adding a flag made of smileys. Some of the best below:

2,000,000!

Canada

Germany

Czech Republic

Norway

United States of America

And of course the United Kingdom!