Washington (West), District of Columbia

The District of Columbia Graticules

Today's Locations: [Washington, DC (West)] [Washington, DC (East)]

The 76th West Meridian crosses directly through the District of Columbia, the city has two graticules, located at latitude 38, longitudes -77 and -76.

Neighboring Graticules

Cumberland, MD	Frederick, MD	Baltimore, MD	Philadelphia, PA (South)
Shenandoah Valley, VA	Washington (West), District of Columbia		Salisbury, MD
Appomattox, VA	Richmond, VA	Newport News, VA	-

Areas within West Graticule

• All of NW and SW DC
• NE and SE DC west of 5th St [N|S]E / Catholic University
• Bethesda and Takoma Park, MD
• Nearly all of Northern Virginia proper including all of Arlington and Alexandria and at least most of Fairfax and Prince William
• The "peak" of Loudoun (Leesburg, Ashburn) is not included. Most of Reston is included. Much of Sterling is not.
• The Virginia I-95 corridor most of the way to Richmond, including Prince William County, Fredericksburg, and Quantico.
• Bits of Southern Maryland west of La Plata and Waldorf are also included.

Areas within East Graticule

• Most of NE, SE DC
• Part of Prince George's county
• Charles, St. Mary's, Anne Arundel, and Calvert counties
• Talbot, Queen Anne's, and Dorchester counties
• Chesapeake Bay

Local Geohashers

• Thomas lives in this area, and plans to attend the meetup in whichever local graticule is most convenient on Saturday.
• Colin also is a resident of this area and plans to attend on Saturday (May 24).
• Steve and Lynette currently live in the Eastern Washington graticule, but are moving to the Western in two weeks, and will attend whichever meetup is most convenient whenever they are able.
• Dan technically lives in the very bottom of the Frederick graticule, but will be attending meetups in this graticule when it's more convenient (gas is expensive!).
• Brian's mother has a house on Kent Island, which would be ideal to visit on a day like today
• Justin also lives in the Fairfax area, and will attend when able - like Dan said, gas is expensive!

(2008-05-22).

• Alex is a college student home from the summer who got turned onto this geohashing by a friend in Portland OR. She hopes to participate in as many geohashes as she can before she leaves for Santiago Chile in mid-July.
• Alex H. is looking to do some geohashes with his junky old GPS unit in Fairfax.
• Phil is in the Fairfax area along with Alex H.
• EpeeGnome hopes to attend more of these soon. Contact him for possible carpooling if you live near Lexington Park.
• Katie lives in the Baltimore graticule, but will be attending meet-ups in the DC area as well when convenient.
• Scott I'm in Arlington, and will come to northern locations in both graticules. May do farther out ones if they fall in a park/public space.

Notable Activities

• Dan is a big fan of Go, and is planning on bringing his portable set to meetups.

Recent Locations

5-22-08 - Awesome, it's at someone's house, looks like quite a big house too

2008-05-25 - A promising location at a private residence in McLean. (Interesting fact: you are about 1000ft from the headquarters of the world's largest candy company (Mars Inc), yet probably never realized it. Their headquarters is an unmarked 2-story brick building on Elm St.)

2008-05-31 - Official Saturday meetup: Best location is in DC East, north of Waldorf. See Tak Page for planning details.

2008-06-07 Official Saturday Meetup - Best location for the DC Area in in the DC West Graticule - a wooded area west of La Plata, Maryland. See Talk page for logistics.

2008-06-14 Official Saturday Meetup - Very close to the water in Founder's Park. Just off the Braddock Road Metro rail stop. (16 attendees)

2008-06-20 In the parking lot of Giant/CVS Pharmacy at the corner of Gallows Rd and Rt. 50. good shot- just east of the truck parked perpendicular to the parking lines

2008-06-28 Looks to be in a no man's land in Dale City, Va. Would moving to the SE cul-de-sac (100 feet away) be better? (further discussion currently on talk page)