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Will hopefully be there, uncertain if the exact location is accessible, is there a protocol for selecting a substitute location if we cant gain access? [[User:Android|Android]] 19:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC) | Will hopefully be there, uncertain if the exact location is accessible, is there a protocol for selecting a substitute location if we cant gain access? [[User:Android|Android]] 19:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC) | ||
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Revision as of 07:23, 24 May 2008
| Sheffield | – | – |
| Birmingham East | Northampton | Cambridge |
| Swindon | London West | London East |
[[Category:Meetup in {{{lat}}} {{{lon}}}| ]]
The graticule in Mid East contains Northampon, Peterborough and Bedford. It extends into Cambridgeshire as far as Royston, goes as far West as Buckingham, but not as far as Leicester or Nottinham. It goes as far South as just below Milton Keynes and contains Grantham and Boston at the top.
Locations
The graticule has boundaries from 53° to 52° latitude, and -1° to 0° longitude. When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 52° latitude and -0° longitude. Note the use of negative zero.
Europe Issue
It has already been flagged on the main page that Europe has an issue where the Dow opens shortly (in our case 90 minutes) before the 4pm meetup time. The algorithm does say to fall back on the "most recent" value, but this means before 2:30pm the official location is different to what it would be if you generated it at 4pm, i.e. when we go to meet, the location actually changes if you follow the algorithm to the letter.
Of course, this issue isn't a problem at all for Saturdays given even by 4pm Saturday we're still using the value from 2:30pm Friday.
Meetups
Meetup on Saturday 4pm UK time.
Saturday 2008-05-24
Meetup is at 4pm near Bedfordshire Golf Club. Sign your names here if you're attending. To sign, click "edit" and type ~~~~. You don't need to register on the wiki to do this (it'll use your IP address rather than a username).
Will hopefully be there, uncertain if the exact location is accessible, is there a protocol for selecting a substitute location if we cant gain access? Android 19:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm just aiming to get to the closest possible point to it, which I think is about 2/3 down Spring Lane. --82.13.47.36 07:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
