Difference between revisions of "Los Angeles, California"

Revision as of 23:03, 11 February 2014

The Los Angeles, California graticule is at latitude 34, longitude -118. While not including the entire city of Los Angeles, this graticule includes downtown LA and much of the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. The Long Beach graticule, which otherwise mostly contains ocean, includes the portion of the city of Los Angeles which is south of the 10 freeway.

Current meetup information and plans

Map of today's location.

2014-02-11: A residential driveway in Pasadena.

Past meetups

2008

2008-05-24: First LA geohashing meetup! Definitely a success.
2008-05-31: under the 10 freeway
2008-06-07: near Vincent Hill Station, Palmdale
2008-06-08: near Union Station
2008-06-14: Edwards AFB
2008-06-21: near Tehachapi
2008-06-28: 10 miles east of Lancaster
2008-07-04: just off the 126
2008-07-26: Angeles National Forest
2008-08-09: Temple City
2008-08-30: Hollywood Hills
2008-10-06: Agoura Hills

2009

2009-03-28: Reseda
2009-08-29: Los Padres Forest, near Gorman
2009-08-30: Larchmont Village, city of Los Angeles
2009-10-03: The corner of Fairfax and Beverly

2010

2010-03-12: Geohash was on the grounds of the Kranz Intermediate School in El Monte.

2011

None recorded.

2012

2012-03-26: Arcadia
2012-04-28: A riverbed near Acton.
2012-05-15: A parking lot at 1325 Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.
2012-06-20: On the bike path next to the LA River as it passes by Griffith Park & the 134

2013

2013-07-07: Half-mile due south of Fry's in Canoga Park (Didn't happen??)
2013-07-20: About a half-mile north of Garvanza Park.
2013-12-18: Rancho Avenue, along the north edge of the Bette Davis Picnic Area in Griffith Park.
2013-12-31: In the driveway of a duplex residence in Rosemead.

2014

2014-01-04: About 50 feet east of Capistrano on Miranda in Hidden Hills. Please behave - neighbors very angry!!
2014-01-20: In the dry South Fork River, near Railroad Ave., in Santa Clarita.
2014-02-02 - Mojave desert, northeast of Lancaster.

Life-threatening

6/12/09: In the slow lane of the 5 Southbound in Burbank, just before it hits the Ventura freeway. Bring your road flares!
5/5/13: There has to be a whole new achievement just for this day.

Tools

If you want to make a poster to leave at the spot of your expedition, go to the following URL to generate a PDF with map, explanation, QR code, and more:

 http://geo.crox.net/poster/[date]_[lat]_[lon]

e.g., for today's hash in 34, -118, go to http://geo.crox.net/poster/2024-11-22_34_-118. Find more information at User:Crox/Poster.

Achievements

Template:Virgin graticule

Facebook Group

There is now a Facebook Group.

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 * [[2009-06-12_34_-118|6/12/09]]: In the slow lane of the 5 Southbound in Burbank, just before it hits the Ventura freeway.  Bring your road flares!
 * [http://goo.gl/maps/GnLua 5/5/13]: There has to be a whole new achievement just for this day.
+== Tools ==
+If you want to make a poster to leave at the spot of your expedition, go to the following URL to generate a PDF with map, explanation, QR code, and more:
+ <nowiki> http://geo.crox.net/poster/[date]_[lat]_[lon] </nowiki>
+e.g., for today's hash in 34, -118, go to [http://geo.crox.net/poster/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}_34_-118 http://geo.crox.net/poster/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}_34_-118]. Find more information at [[User:Crox/Poster]].
 == Achievements ==

Bakersfield	Tehachapi	Ridgecrest
Santa Barbara	Los Angeles	San Bernardino
San Nicolas Island	Long Beach	Santa Ana
Today's location: not yet announced