A Confluence of Creativity

Check out The Degree Confluence Project.  I was telling Ladeewolf about this today and kind of got the details wrong, but the basic idea is correct.  A degree confluence is wherever latitude and longitude intersect with no spare minutes or seconds.  For instance, 37°00'00" North and 108°00'00" West is on the border between Colorado and New Mexico.  The pictures of what the world looks like at those exact coordinates is on the Confluence Project's website.

What I told Ladeewolf based on my cursory view of the website was that it was something a particular person was doing (it's not, anyone can submit pictures of their nearby confluences) and that it was nearly complete (only 30% of the world's eligible confluences have been submitted).  I say eligible confluences because they aren't counting ones near the poles that would be damned hard to get to or the ones in the ocean.

Still, it's a really cool idea, and I'll have fun following new confluences as they're added.  Incidentally, I discovered the Degree Confluence Project because they have mapped the confluences and put links to the pictures on Google Earth.