In 1998, Bruce Myren bought a portable GPS unit, and began a project he had been dreaming of since 1991: photographing each of the whole longitudinal degree intersections along the 40th parallel using an 8"x10" camera.
In June, 2012, he ran a
successful Kickstarter campaign to raise money to finish the project.
He completed it last December, 21 years after conception:
The Fortieth Parallel [more inside]
posted by 1367
on May 10, 2013 -
44 comments
Harold Cooper’s
Extend New York takes New York City to extremes, by extrapolating every street and avenue of the Manhattan grid to whole planet. What subway line stops at your front door, wherever you are? Why do all Avenues terminate in
Shaytankuduk?
posted by migurski
on Nov 14, 2011 -
19 comments
This morning, Google launched a new feature called "
Google Dashboard" that lets users view (and in some cases control,) what data is being stored on a range of more than 20 Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts and Latitude.
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posted by zarq
on Nov 5, 2009 -
59 comments
Do you know where you are? With
Google Maps and
Google Earth so commonplace now, GPS everywhere, and with websites such as our own Metafilter making use of latitude and longitude did you ever stop to think about how all this latitude, longitude and height above sea level works? The UK's
Ordnance Survey explains it all in
A Guide to Coordinate Systems in Great Britain. Discover that different coordinate systems might differ by as much as 200m, and that your house may be moving as much as 1m up and down each day relative to the centre of the Earth, and many other bits of geographical interest.
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posted by edd
on Sep 6, 2006 -
4 comments
GeoBloggers The natural extension of Google and Flickr so that
personalized maps are created of geotagged photos. Add "geo:lat=xx.xxxx", "geo:lon=xx.xxxx" and "geotagged" to your Flickr tags and they go into the system. The possibilities are pretty wide open.
Ain't technology grand?
posted by fenriq
on May 18, 2005 -
20 comments
