Hi Doug Well there's already a very similar web site confluence.org/ This is for people trying to stand on points of exact degrees intersecting (according to WGS84) I have stood on two such points 54.0000 N 2.0000 W (on a lonely bit of moorland above Skipton, UK. It's very boggy , be careful ;-) ) and 52 N 5 E (Just next to a roundabout near Utrecht in the Netherlands). Trying to think back to my browsing of the site I don't recall any dial connections but then most of these confluences do lie the middle of nowhere . A more pertinent question might be what dials are on whole number lat / long lines (and why)
Good luck with the membership drive! Ian Maddocks Chester, UK --- Original Message --- From: "Douglas Bateman" <douglas.bate...@btinternet.com> Sent: 30 April 2014 17:37 To: "Sundial list" <sundial@uni-koeln.de> Subject: The GPS zero meridian club This is a new club consisting, so far, of two members: Frank King and myself. After the successful British Sundial Society conference, the Sunday morning was allocated to tours of the Greenwich Observatory. Quite independently, Frank and I had the intention of location the WGS84 meridian, some 90m east of the Greenwich brass strip. Frank had an eTrex tracker and an app on his mobile phone, and I had an Axxera GPS tracker linked to my iPad. The images, if the system will let them through, show 0ยบ 0' 0". Anyone else willing to join this new exclusive club? Plenty of places to straddle the line between the north pole and the south pole. Doug (and Frank)
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