September 16, 2006

  • Confluence Project

    I'm a big fan of The Confluence Project. It's an attempt to take pictures and write stuff about every point where integer latitude and longitude lines meet.

    Turn on the Google Earth Community layer, and you'll see the points.

    You'll also see someone's carefully-collected set of bigfoot sightings, labeled by date. Fly to Index, WA, and then look at the 'i' just to the east.

    And, while I'm documenting things I'm finding on Google Earth, I might as well point out EarthDial, which is a bunch of sundials on Earth with web cams, which you can compare to webcam-equipped sundials ON MARS. Here's Bill Nye's contribution.

    I found it because there's a Google Earth marker in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, labeled 'Bill Nye, The Science Guy.' Maybe I should go show up at his house and thank him for being a hero-nerd.

    See also TurnHere, and their bit on Ballard. Thing is: the clicky icon on Google Earth is in Greenlake! Har!