Northern Scotland is lovely

[cjsmith]

Link from indyansel: The Geograph Project. Collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles.

I thought of mactavish. I could imagine her starting a similar project for California.

I went to look at the photographs from the Orkneys and Duncansby and they make my heart sing. I whimper with the knowledge that I was once in a place as beautiful as northern Scotland and I left it to come home.

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[oddhack.livejournal.com]

Cool! It overlaps in some ways with the California Coastline Project (which I'm not posting a link to, due to laziness).

With the huge number of surveillance cameras in the UK, pretty soon they may be able to include live video feeds for many of those grid points. Upsides and downsides to that but like it or not, it's going to happen eventually all over the planet.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I had just told Joe, "We need that for California." I posted it in geographile. :)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

This was one of our absolute favorite places in the UK:
http://www.geograph.co.uk/photo/1688

This is me going up the steps inside:
http://www.geographile.com/mary/visual/dolbadarn_maryinside-wales.jpg

*sigh*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I loved the cliffs in the Orkneys, the sea stacks at Duncansby (all right, all of Caithness), and all the old stones.

There's a gorgeous church-ruin somewhere in Scotland... one of the most beautiful things I'd seen done by the hand of man, and much much nicer with green grass all through it than it was when it had a floor and a roof. Unlike most enclosed spaces, I truly could imagine it being a holy place. Sadly, I've forgotten the name and location, so I can't browse to see if there's a geograph photo of it.

[layer.livejournal.com]

that's exactly how i felt about scotland, though i was on the isle of mull...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*nod* I spent only a little time on the Isle of Mull, and a bit on Iona and on Staffa, but I enjoyed those islands just as much as the Orkneys. *sigh*

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

The Orkneys ... lord how I loved it there.
Thanks for the link, too amazingly cool :)

[eichin.livejournal.com]

See also the degree confluence project (http://confluence.org/) about taking pictures on every integer lat/long intersection point, which currently has coverage in 166 countries, for a wider-scope but lower-resolution version of this concept... more about "sampling" than being interpretively representative, though.