2008-11-08 49 -123

Sat 8 Nov 2008 in Vancouver: 49.1282440, -123.0973623 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Today's geohash was located on a cul-de-sac in an industrial park in Richmond, close to the Steveston highway.

Participants

• Robyn was there at quarter to four with Wade (instead of T-Rex).
• Garyuuko made it about five minutes later.
• HollyB was hoping to go around 4, but we didn't see her. She likely couldn't spend 4 hours not studying physics.
• Thepiguy was there around 1900. And did someone mention physics?

Expeditions

Robyn & Wade

Robyn and Wade were on the way to visit Robyn's brother, and the geohash was right on the way, so Robyn brought Wade and the car, and a picnic basket. Robyn assigned Wade to program the (new) GPS and to determine exact driving directions to the geohash. He did the former and then printed off the later in Tagalog. Yes, Tagalog. For some reason Google maps defaults to Tagalog on Robyn's computer.

Robyn drove to the geohash with Wade giving directions such as "Lumiko Pakaliwa sa No. 5 Rd." We now know the Tagalog for "turn left" and "turn right." When we pulled into the cul-de-sac there were some kids raking leaves, so we parked away from their work and walked back to the zero point. The new etrex Venture is much better than the old etrex Legend, especially as the Legend won't turn on properly anymore. The Venture acquires position faster, even in a building or car and oscillates less. Also it's in colour.

The kids raking leaves came over to see what we were doing as we located the 0m point and photographed the GPS there. "What is that?" they asked. We told them, and explained that we were playing a game where we come to places to see what and who is there. They regarded us incredulously and explained that there is nothing here. We thanked them and got out our picnic basket. I was just pouring the grape juice into plastic wineglasses, when Wade spotted a motorcycle entering the cul-de-sac. "Here's someone," he said. He isn't a veteran of as many solitary geohashes as I am, hasn't sat and watched as many people who might be geohashers but aren't, so I didn't even look up until Wade said, "He's waving." It was Garyuuko, my first meeting with him, and he accepted a glass of grape juice.

The kids did a very good job of raking the leaves. We chalkmarked the geohash, took a few photographs and continued on our separate ways.

Photos to follow.

Thepiguy

Thepiguy was busy during the day, but he made it to the coordinates for 1900 and added to the mural created by his fellow geohashers.

I'll do a proper write up and add photos at some point. It may be a while though.