What's Across The Ocean?

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dyad of years agone Eric Odenheimer made a rattling pop static map which was reported equally showing y'all what province y'all would come across if y'all stood on the beach anywhere inwards North, South or Central America in addition to could come across all the agency across the ocean.

What Odenheimer's map genuinely shows y'all is the province across the bounding main which is on an equivalent latitude. Andy Woodruff was inspired past times Odenheimer's map to usage a serial of static maps which genuinely demo y'all what is genuinely across the bounding main if y'all await perpendicular to the coast.

In Beyond the Sea Andy takes into trouble organisation human relationship that the coastline genuinely bends in addition to turns in addition to faces inwards lots of dissimilar directions in addition to that the the world is round. Therefore what province is across the bounding main perpendicular to the coast depends on where y'all are standing on this twisting coastline. Andy's explanation nigh the maps goes into a lot to a greater extent than item nigh how he calculated these keen circle lines for dissimilar points from the world's coastlines.


Esri UK was inwards plow inspired past times Andy Woodruff's maps to usage an interactive map of Coastal Views from the United Kingdom. Esri's map draws lines from dissimilar points along the UK coast showing which province lies across the bounding main if y'all await perpendicular to the coastline.

The wages of using an interactive map is that Esri has been able to add together a piffling to a greater extent than data to their map. If y'all click on whatever of the lines drawn on the map the get upwards of the province across the bounding main is revealed, equally is the release of miles away the province genuinely is.