[Image: From "Grid Corrections" by Gerco de Ruijter, courtesy of the Ulrich Museum of Art].

In case this is of interest, I've got a new article up over at Travel + Leisure about photographer Gerco de Ruijter, who recently undertook an exploration of sites where the Jeffersonian road grid has to go askew in order to account for the curvature of the Earth.
[Image: From "Grid Corrections" by Gerco de Ruijter, courtesy of the Ulrich Museum of Art].

De Ruijter is already widely known for his work documenting grids and other signs of human-induced geometry in the landscape, from Dutch tree farms to pivot irrigation systems, which gives this new focus an interestingly ironic air.
[Image: From "Grid Corrections" by Gerco de Ruijter, courtesy of the Ulrich Museum of Art].
In other words, these are places where a vision of geometric perfection?a seemingly infinite grid, dividing equal plots of land for everyone, extending sea to shining sea?collides with the reality of a spherical planet and must undergo internal deviations.
Those are the "grid corrections" of de Ruijter's title, and they take the form of otherwise inexplicable T-intersections and zigzag turns in the middle of nowhere.
[Image: From "Grid Corrections" by Gerco de Ruijter, courtesy of the Ulrich Museum of Art].

The project includes a series of spherical panoramas de Ruijter made using kite photography at specific corrective intersections outside Wichita, ...