Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude Intersection 265
Kevin A. Pieckiel writes "The Degree Confluence Project's goal is to visit every latitude and logitude degree integer intersection in the world and journal it on this web site. An excerpt: 'The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 12,889 to be found.' A neat project, indeed." As Timothy noted, I've posted before, and in Slashback form; a while back.
Re:Too Many Bored People (Score:1, Informative)
News for NERDS!!!
Re:Too Many Bored People (Score:2, Informative)
Here's something close: Project Denny's [p7a77.net]
37N 116W, I Double Dog Dare Ya! (Score:3, Informative)
Good luck, you'll need it!
Re:Neat use for your GPS (Score:3, Informative)
Re:37N 116W, I Double Dog Dare Ya! (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=37&l
Re:37N 116W, I Double Dog Dare Ya! (Score:2, Informative)
Believe it or not, they do have an "incomplete" visit to the site here. [confluence.org] The only reason that it's incomplete is that the visitor didn't take the requisite 6 photographs. He did include a picture of his GPS [confluence.org] at that location, though. Another person has asked for permission to visit, which seems like a reasonable approach to the problem.
Re:37N 116W, I Double Dog Dare Ya! (Score:4, Informative)
Heh - looks like someone [confluence.org] has already taken that dare [confluence.org].
Re:"A neat project, indeed." ?! (Score:5, Informative)
A tessellated icosahedron would be better from the standpoint of even sampling, but the coordinate transformations from the GPS-ready latitude and longitude numbers would be prohibitive for most recreational gee-whiz participants.
Humanity has no hope.... (Score:3, Informative)
You can take your camera to Iran and Tibet, no problems.
Even to North Korea, if you apply for the right permisions and follow the instructions of your guard.
Turkmenistan is tough but not impossible.
which lattitude/longitude? (Score:1, Informative)
Admittedly, the confluences under each grid are almost always within 100 meters of each other, which is what the project organizers consider acceptable accuracy, but it is still suprising that they don't make it explicit.
Dude, try to learn a ltitle about the world (Score:3, Informative)
I'll agree with North Korea. But Exactly what is th eproblem with Tibet? A lot of tourists are travelling there, there is no problems going there. How do you think all those souvernir salesmen in Lhasa make their living?
And Iran is, even though your president called it part of some fictious axes of evil, a very open and friendly place. In fact, it's probably the most "advanced" society in the middle east.
Stop watching Fox News and switch to Discovery or something instead. Or even better, try to travel outside your continent.
Re:Simply not doable - politically or logistically (Score:3, Informative)
You do know that Canada isn't bone-chilling cold year round, right? People live in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. People hunt there, people mine there. There are few places that would be nearly impossible to get to.
Beaten path?! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What is this, High School? (Score:1, Informative)
You should have tried a living girl. I hear they're better.
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Informative)
"We got within 1.5 km of this confluence before being asked to leave by the Army. As it turns out, the confluence is in the middle of a live firing range and it is not safe or legal to visit it without assistance from the Army."
Re:OK, Math/Geo geeks... (Score:2, Informative)
Nope, still one degree.
Which also defines 60 nautical miles. A nautical mile (a minute of latitude) is usually accepted to be constant at 1852 metres (or meters). But due to the flattening at the poles, I am pretty sure this is not true. So the answer is yes, they get closer from the equator to the pole.
Doing the maths on a modern datum, I found 1854 m at the equator and 1850m at the poles.
Anyone concur?
Re:OK, Math/Geo geeks... (Score:1, Informative)
Assuming the Earth is a perfect sphere (which it isn't), longitudinal lines are 60*cos(latitude) nautical miles apart along latitudinal lines, or 60 * arccos(sin^2(latitude) + cos(1 degree)*cos^2(latitude)) (in degrees) nautical miles apart along a great circle. 60 nautical miles is approximately 69 miles or 111 km.
Also, I forget--do lines of latitude get closer together as you go closer to the poles, or are they all X miles apart?
They are all 60 nautical miles apart, or about 69 miles/111 km.
Re:What is this, High School? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:OK, Math/Geo geeks... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:they need a dictionary (Score:2, Informative)
"a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point" -- www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster)
Nowhere does this definition appear to preclude the things which 'flow together', 'meet' or 'gather' from continuing separately. Nor is the square/normal nature of the meeting excluded by this definition.
Out of curiosity, what dictionary did you consult?
Eric Lincoln
Degree Confluence Project