2010-01-06 33 -84

Graticule

About

On someone's house in Marietta Georgia.

Expedition

NWoodruff

Finally Atlanta is on the map of Geohashes. I was beginning to worry there for a few days. We have had some extreme cold weather. Well, Probably not cold to Seattle or maybe Berlin but cold to us Southerns.

I found this hash to be only 9 miles from where I work and decided that it should be a lunch time geohash.

I drove down the road and found the Geohash house where the Geohash point was located. I walked up to the door hoping to get lucky that someone would be home. I knocked on the door and rang the door bell. No answer.

I waited and rang the door bell again. After another wait and ringing the door bell again. I assumed that nobody was home. I looked at my eTrex and 34 feet to go. I took a picture of it hoping upon hope that 34 feet was inside the 10 meter requirement. I wasn't exactly sure how many feet are in 10 meters. All I know that is it a little more than 30 feet.

Well, I googled it and have found that 10 meters equals 32.81 feet. So, standing at the front door, I was not inside of the requirement.

Just to play it safe, I walked around to the back of the house to see if I could get closer. There is a fence encircling the entire back yard. The gate to the back yard was open. I shouted "Hello" into the back yard and there was no answer.

Even though the gate was open, I looked at my eTrex and it said 17 feet to go. Close enough without having to enter the gate.

I took a few pictures then I got back in my truck and headed for work.

Gallery

34.4 feet to go. Not close enough.
17.6 feet to go. Close enough.
Time of the meetup.
Date of the meetup.
Me with a Stupid Grin™
A picture of the corner of the house where I took the pictures.


Wed 6 Jan 2010 in Atlanta: 33.9776834, -84.4891070 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox