Last week I posted about Zoto.com supporting the geotagging feature on all of its images. In support of that new feature Zoto has introduced Geo Project USA. From the Geo Project website:
The objective of Geo Project USA is to visit and photograph every spot in the U.S. where a whole-numbered minute of latitude intersects with a whole-numbered minute of longitude (e.g., 38°14'00"N, 109°55'00"W), in what is better known as a confluence point. Minute confluence points form roughly a one-mile by one-mile grid across the U.S. The goal of this project is to capture photos from as many as possible of the 4,554,000 minute confluence points in the U.S, producing for the first time a granular look at the fabric of America.
Already these confluence points are starting to be gathered and a Google Map will display all of these points on a map as they come in. Here is an example of a confluence (37°52'N 122°16'W) looking North, South, East and West.
Get started today and contribute to this awesome project!
7 comments:
How is this different from http://www.confluence.org?
confluence works with whole degrees whereas this is taking in minutes as well - making it more laike a pointillist painting.
Recognition is given to the confluence mapping project at the GEoProject intro page.
Aside from that, has anyone else noticed that the GeoProject button here leads to the graphic rather than to the website?
Mosely -
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out.. The image should now link properly to the GeoProject website.
Cheers,
Morpeth.
This is pretty cool. Confluence.org should collaborate with them on the project.
If they ever get enough pictures, I bet somebody builds an app that does stuff with them, like animates them and lets you fly across country, stuff like that.
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