Rose Line

the rose line brought famous by the author dan brown in the da vinci code can also be referred to as the the paris meridian. The Paris Meridian being a meridian line running through the paris observatory in paris, france - now longitude 2°20′14.025″ east. It was a long-standing rival to greenwich as the prime meridian of the world, as was the antwerp meridian in flanders, a geographical region located in parts of present-day belgium.
visiting paris over the weekend i decided to lookinto it it was quite a shame i didn't get to see it before whilst i was there, never mind. paris was a beautiful city.
i thought this was quite an interesting line, after looking at dot to dt i realised that the rose line was made up of dots, plaques embedded onto the floor. In 1994 the arago association and the city of Paris commissioned a dutch conceptual artist, jan dibbets, to create a memorial to arago, François Jean Dominique Arago catalan: Francesc Joan Dominic Aragó, who was a historic french catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. Dibbets came up with the idea of setting 135 bronze medallions (although interestingly only 121 of which are documented) into the ground along the Paris Meridian between the northern and southern limits of Paris: a total distance of 9.2 kilometres/5.7 miles. Each medallion is 12 cm in diameter and marked with the name ARAGO plus N and S pointers.
Another project, the so-called Green Meridian, aims to establish a plantation of trees along the entire length of the meridian in France. quite a big dot to dot i'd say and i think this is something that i would like to look at in more detail. i would like to look at maps next.
the parisian streets are indeed fascinating lines as themselves. mapped out in such a thought out and planned manner there seems no room for error in these perfect looking streets. they are deisgned in such a way it is incredibly easy to get around and are perfect for seeing all the monuments.
the map that i used to get around demonstrates this really well. i'm quite interested in the idea of maps. however i'm sure i have done this before. i looked last year on my foundation course at the application of line and i produced several drawings of the leeds urban landscape. not necessarily mapping but i can see this going down a similar road which isn't nwhere i want to go. never the less i think i'll skim over it just a little bit as it could take me somewhere else.
i intend from here to looks at maps and representations of landscapes which i think could lead me down an interesting road. at this point i'll also try and look at photography and i would like to look at the process of manual photography and see if i can produce any interesting line results.