Aaron James Young - Salem, Oregon

Website Design and Development

A site I can get lost on

Posted on Dec 15 2009 | Posted in Web/Tech | No Comments

http://www.confluence.org

For the sake of making navigation easier (among other things), we humans have laid out a grid of arbitrarily-placed vertical and horizontal lines on our planet. Every place a latitude line crosses a longitude line (for example, 45 degrees N and 142 degrees W) is called a “confluence”. The Confluence project is an attempt to catalogue these spots. People visit a confluence, take pictures in each of the four cardinal directions, and post them on this website.

It’s a really interesting way of seeing average terrain in various places that aren’t always on the beaten path.

There is one confluence on an I-5 onramp in Salem.

Aaron James Young is a Salem, Oregon Web Designer and crazy runner / cyclist. He is husband to Evelyn and father to Hanna.

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