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Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude Intersection

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-projects dept.

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.

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  1. Re:37N 116W, I Double Dog Dare Ya! by strabo · · Score: 3, Informative
    37N 116W

    Good luck, you'll need it!

    Heh - looks like someone has already taken that dare.


    06-Jan-2004 -- Up front, I must admit that I did not visit this confluence personally. However, the friend of a friend of a ... who did visit asked me not to use his name.
  2. Re:"A neat project, indeed." ?! by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Evenly sampled" is used loosely here. For example, the lucky stiff who gets assigned to one of the poles can take fill in 1/180 (360/64800) of all the data points without taking a step!

    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.

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    taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
  3. Dude, try to learn a ltitle about the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    Excuse me?

    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.