If you call a GPS device your own, live in the area of Vienna and enjoy discovering your neighborhood from a new perspective then you should have a look at 4816:
the intersection of the minutes
4816 is about finding the minute points on the GPS grid in the urban area of Vienna. The point N48° 11,000´ E16° 19,000 is an example of these 185 intersections of latitudinal and longitudinal minutes within Vienna. … At each intercept point a photo is taken in each compass direction.
By traversing the GPS intercept points you take a journey through Vienna. The goal is known. But what will be the nature of its environment? Will it be approachable? What will be the special thing about it?
Kick-off is this thursday night (8/31/2006) at the FLUC in Vienna.
To get a picture of how far this project can get, I marked the minute intersections in and around Vienna in a Google Map.
Looking at certain markers on the satellite image I started thinking about methods to stabilize a little boat in the middle of the danube, precisely at N48°16′ E16°22′, for the time necessary to take a picture in each compass direction. Any ideas?
At locations like N48°15′ E16°22′ you should be quick and better have a copy of the railway schedule in your pocket if you don’t want to be run over by a train.
Well, before trying this two points I should check if all my insurance fees are paid.
Still fun and less dangerous will be explaining to people why I it is so important to enter their garden and make 4 pictures at this magic location.
I think Don Cooke would love this project.
Update
I have now a GPX-file and a KML-file for Google Earth available which show only the minute intersections within the boundaries of Vienna. Since my Google Map parses the same GPX-file, it got updated too.
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