2011-12-19 42 -88

Location

The middle of Delphine Dr. in New Berlin, WI

Participants

Plans

When I checked my iPhone app this morning, the data seemed to come up slow but valid. When I checked peeron and one or two of the other calculators, there was no valid data for the day. I've been playing with these numbers manually recently, so what the heck! I grabbed the opening value from Yahoo! and played with my worksheet program to get the values. Since it's close to Christmas, I decided to check the list twice.

I spent some time during lunch on Google Maps to find a route from work to home that would pass through the coordinates without having to stop or cross my own GPS trail.

~~If this works out, I'll finally earn the Tron achievement for sure!~~ ...and then I read that I have to return to the same spot! *sigh*

RocketMac 15:18, 19 December 2011 (EST)

Expedition

Not much to it, really. I left work and started my GPS tracklog. From there, I just drove the route I had already picked out and navigated evening rush hour traffic.

Pulling into the area, I pulled over to take the photo and verify location. Since it was dark, I took a picture of the hashpoint in my headlights. (is that a song?)

From there, I went home. Easy peasy!

Note: as of this writing, the coordinate calculators are still offline. Based on my own checks, I think Yahoo! changed their HTML which is throwing off the parsers.

RocketMac 23:18, 19 December 2011 (EST)

Trust But Verify

This morning the dot appears on the map, but the coordinates still show wrong. Discussion on the page verified my numbers, but the auto-generated math is still wrong. Luckily, Active Geohasher agrees with me.

RocketMac 12:51, 20 December 2011 (EST)