Grid Corrections (a one minute) from Gerco de Ruijter on Vimeo.
This film was made mining the Thomas Jefferson's Grid in Google Earth.
By superimposing a rectangular grid on the earth surface, a grid built from exact square miles, the spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions.
The north-south bounderies in the grid are on the lines of longitude, which converge to the north. The roads that follow these bounderies must dogleg every twenty-four miles to counter the diminishing distances: Grid Corrections
Read more on Grid Corrections at the wonderful BLDGBLOG
Distribution: LIMA
Made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam.
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