<i>"Stott thinks Geographing more countries would require similar arrangements with national mapping agencies. Making contact with them is on his to-do list, he said."</i><p>This is important.<p>I fit the demographic rather well, and I have a filing cabinet drawer full of monochrome negatives of local city features taken in the 1980s and 90s... so there goes the weekend.
Reminds me of <a href="http://confluence.org/" rel="nofollow">http://confluence.org/</a><p>I remember when it was relatively new and reading the tales of somebody reaching the confluences in southeast China for the first time ever, like going the middle of the jungle and obsessively chasing the all-decimal-zeros in the GPS.
Reminds me of Every Dot, an ambitious project to shoot every dot on the map of one state: <a href="http://afiler.com/everydot/" rel="nofollow">http://afiler.com/everydot/</a><p>The books that came from the kick starter are nice, too.
The title made me think of planet labs' goals (<a href="http://www.planet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.planet.com</a>), but the actual ambition (photos from the ground, rather than from space) seems more challenging in many ways.