Today I found an interesting website when visiting one of Jianshuo Wang’s blogs. Introduced in his blog, Jianshuo visited 30N 119E, an area close to Shanghai. (Correct me if I am wrong). He blogged his trip and also showed some pictures.
The website is called the Degree Confluence Project, whose goal is to collect texts and pictures of every latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world. Said in its front page:
The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you’re on the surface of Earth. We’ve discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 12,066 to be found.
It seems to be a excellent source for people who dream to travel around the world, such as me. I opened several pages of this website, including pages for Henan, Guangdong and Ontario. These are the places where I visited in most of my life.
A world map indicating completed visits can be found here (think twice before clicking on the huge maps!) As can be seen on the map, the project is still incomplete. There are many interesting places not visited yet. Hope some day in future I can do some contributions.