Degree Confluence Project

The Degree Confluence Project is to visit a project with the aim of every so-called primary confluence and photograph. Konfluenzpunkte that lie on the water and from which no land is visible, are called secondary.

Project

A confluence is the intersection of an integer degree of longitude and integer degree of latitude, such as the point with coordinates 49 ° 0 '0 "N, 9 ° 0' 0" O499 in Saxony home, the district Hohenhaslach, northwest of Ludwigsburg. There is computationally Konfluenzpunkte 64 442 ( 21,543 on land, at sea 38 409 areas and 4,490 in the polar caps ). The maximum distance from any point on the earth's surface to the next confluence is about 79 kilometers.

The 49th parallel to the poles, more points are referred to as the secondary land, in order to compensate the reduction of the distance of the intersections of the latitudes. Thus only two thirds of the points are referred to as primary on the 49th degrees of latitude, on the 89th latitudes only ten out of 360 points. The used reference system is WGS84, as this is standard with most GPS devices. Participants are encouraged to Konfluenzpunkten to change anything, but a report and photos on the project sites on the Internet (see web link) set.

Of the 16 341 primary Konfluenzpunkten ( 14,029 on land, 2,161 on the water and 151 in the polar caps ) have been visited 6,030 in 184 different countries at least once successfully (as of June 2011). This corresponds to a share of 36.9%. In addition, 1,098 secondary Konfluenzpunkte were documented. Counting the multiple visits to the same Konfluenzpunkten added, the result is a number of 13,065 documented visits by a total of 11,947 visitors. The number of published pictures of 93 447.

Of the 48 Konfluenzpunkten on German soil are only two in built-up position, namely in the angle (Rheingau ) and the. In red at the Red Mountain All other lying in an open field.

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