40 Degrees North Landmark
Yesterday I saw yihong’s tweet:
这个人真的太有趣了,读到这样的博客,自然而然的开心一天。https://t.co/8vjrZUvGcn
— yihong0618 (@yihong0618) June 16, 2025
This author documented his spontaneous idea to visit the nearest integer coordinate intersection to his location—30 degrees North, 120 degrees East. This kind of thing doesn’t really have much meaning—latitude at least has some natural significance, while longitude is purely arbitrary human convention—but it’s still quite interesting. This activity has a name: the Degree Confluence Project, with a pretty impressive domain name https://confluence.org/. Don’t confuse it with Atlassian’s Confluence or Confluent.