Difference between revisions of "2010-04-19 40 -89"

Latest revision as of 01:40, 9 August 2019

Location

North Knoxville Avenue, northbound, just past Orchard Place in Peoria, Illinois

Participants

Dvdllr

Plans

I needed to go to Peoria Monday evening, and by happenstance, my destination was a whopping 600 feet from the day's geohash location. Before going to my ultimate rendezvous, I decided to leave a little early to do a little geohashing. Since it was on the road, I didn't require a whole lot of preparation besides the camera, GPS, and the coordinates.

Expedition

Immediately prior to reaching the geohash, I had been at Lowe's in East Peoria, which you can see if you look at the tracklog. (Talking of which, when I open up the tracklog, I see a straight line from where I turned off the GPS in Peoria back to where I started in East Peoria, thus looping my route. Disregard that!) Since it was just me in the car, I wasn't about to take pictures or anything while driving, so I just took video with my camera to show me driving through the location. I noticed while I was doing this that the GPS indicated that the speed limit was 45, but I had seen a sign indicating that it was actually 35. I'm guessing that the GPS was wrong, so I believe I was actually going the speed limit! (with regard to the Speed Racer geohash). I turned off Knoxville a couple of blocks later, and after driving through the labyrinthine sideroads of Peoria, I stopped on Orchard Place near where it intersects with Knoxville. I walked to the sidewalk that goes along the road to match my latitude with the geohash spot, though I wasn't about to venture out into the thoroughfare with the traffic and such. And with that, my expedition came to a close.

Tracklog

Link

Photos

From my parting spot, Knoxville Ave that I had just driven through
Record of time and date
GPS view from the adjacent sidewalk
Right there!

Video

Link

In case you're curious, I was listening to The Dave Ramsey Show.

Achievements

Dvdllr earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (40, -89) geohash on 2010-04-19.

Dvdllr earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (40, -89) geohash on 2010-04-19 at 35 mph.

Dvdllr issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by geohashing in a place named Peoria from the (40, -89) geohash on 2010-04-19.

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 == Location ==
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+North Knoxville Avenue, northbound, just past Orchard Place in Peoria, Illinois
 == Participants ==
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+* [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]]
 == Plans ==
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+I needed to go to Peoria Monday evening, and by happenstance, my destination was a whopping 600 feet from the day's geohash location. Before going to my ultimate rendezvous, I decided to leave a little early to do a little geohashing. Since it was on the road, I didn't require a whole lot of preparation besides the camera, GPS, and the coordinates.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+Immediately prior to reaching the geohash, I had been at Lowe's in East Peoria, which you can see if you look at the tracklog. (Talking of which, when I open up the tracklog, I see a straight line from where I turned off the GPS in Peoria back to where I started in East Peoria, thus looping my route. Disregard that!) Since it was just me in the car, I wasn't about to take pictures or anything while driving, so I just took video with my camera to show me driving through the location. I noticed while I was doing this that the GPS indicated that the speed limit was 45, but I had seen a sign indicating that it was actually 35. I'm guessing that the GPS was wrong, so I believe I was actually going the speed limit! (with regard to the Speed Racer geohash). I turned off Knoxville a couple of blocks later, and after driving through the labyrinthine sideroads of Peoria, I stopped on Orchard Place near where it intersects with Knoxville. I walked to the sidewalk that goes along the road to match my latitude with the geohash spot, though I wasn't about to venture out into the thoroughfare with the traffic and such. And with that, my expedition came to a close.
 == Tracklog ==
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+[http://www.mapmyride.com/route/us/il/peoria/805127177458140439 Link]
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+Image:2010-04-19 40 -89 1.jpg | From my parting spot, Knoxville Ave that I had just driven through
+Image:2010-04-19 40 -89 2.jpg | Record of time and date
+Image:2010-04-19 40 -89 3.jpg | GPS view from the adjacent sidewalk
+Image:2010-04-19 40 -89 4.jpg | Right there!
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+== Video ==
+[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noeIDqvK2zk Link]
+In case you're curious, I was listening to ''The Dave Ramsey Show''.
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+| name = [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]]
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+{{Speed racer
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+| name = [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]]
+| speed = 35 mph
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+{{A Tale of Two Hashes challenge
+| latitude = 40
+| longitude = -89
+| date = 2010-04-19
+| name = [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]]
+| place = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_Peoria Peoria]
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