Gerco de Ruijter - Grid Corrections (A One Minute)

Tracklist

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Grid Corrections (A One Minute)

01:28

Credits

• Score – Michel Banabila (tracks: 1)
• Video Editor – Gerco de Ruijter (tracks: 1)

Notes

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 BLDGBLOG: bldgblog.com/2015/12/grid-corrections

Made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam