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Sound Mapping by Iain Mott is a participatory work of sound art made for outdoor environments. The work is installed in the environment by means of a Global Positioning System (GPS), which tracks movement of individuals through the space. Participants wheel four movement-sensitive, sound producing suitcases to realise a composition that spans space as well as time. The suitcases play music in response to nearby architectural features and the movements of individuals. Sound Mapping aims to assert a sense of place, physicality and engagement to reaffirm the relationship between art and the everyday.

Trace by Teri Rueb is a memorial environmental sound installation that is site-specific to the network of hiking trails near the Burgess Shale fossil beds in Yoho National Park, British Columbia.

Both projects appear to have used Trimble GPS technology: details in paper by Iain Mott  'Sound Mapping: an assertion of place'.
 

some other GPS related projects:
Artworks with Global Technologies  Andrea Di Castro
The Gambit  Kati Rubinyi
Kio's Base Unit  MIT & IDEO
GPS links  emerging research areas of interest to artists: Steve Wilson.