2012-08-21 47 -117

Tue 21 Aug 2012 in 47,-117: 47.6594488, -117.4660541 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

in Greenwood Memorial Cemetery on Government Way.

Participants

Greenup, Rab, Greer, Nessa, and Pace.

Expedition

Notes:

1. I had some difficulties with the coordinates... Though I had printed out pictures/maps of where I was going, for some reason, the actual coordinates didn't print out. Then I managed to get the decimals after the wrong degree numbers...

2. A cemetery is NOT necessarily an easy place to locate a geohash. To be properly respectful, you have to watch your surroundings more than the changing numbers, so you aren't walking all over people's graves.

3. My GPS is... poor. After wandering 10 feet this way, ten feet that way, re-aligning to north because the wrong decimal was changing when I moved, repeating the process, going too far, finally just standing STILL in utter frustration, and then watching the numbers continue to wander all over the place. Sigh; I know there are GENERAL accuracy issues, but I think my phone is particularly known for it's pathetic GPS capabilities.

4. Even though I made them stay in the car for a while to avoid walking on people, the kids seemed to have fun. if nothing else, they got some DS time in on the car ride out and back.

Photos

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  looking at the spot, showing where the GPS currently thinks it is, and the reference doco from google maps to find the best guess for the spot.

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  Greer, Rab, Pace, Nessa, and Greenup standing at the site.various landmarks from google maps and street view are visible.

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  this grave was maybe two feet to the right (south) of where the location appears to be. 1922 is a LONG time ago.

Achievements

• Land Geohash