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The New York City [[graticule]] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-24&lat=40&long=-74&zoom=8&abs=1 latitude 40, longitude -73]. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. Sigh, if only our graticule was not mostly sea water... | The New York City [[graticule]] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-24&lat=40&long=-74&zoom=8&abs=1 latitude 40, longitude -73]. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. Sigh, if only our graticule was not mostly sea water... | ||
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The New York City graticule is at latitude 40, longitude -73. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. Sigh, if only our graticule was not mostly sea water... On the bright side, non-preppies can now visit the Greenwich, CT islands in this graticule via Metro North and ferry.
Today's Location:
[New York, NY]
Activities
Oleo will try to get to the coordinates, but doesn't have a car.
There is a facebook group for New York, NY geohashers. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19859510038
Notable Events
Local Geohashers
- Oleo
- Barney
- Patrick
- Zach
- Dan
- Caroline hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Andrew hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Jessi
- Andrew L hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Joe will geohash when in town, but is at school for most of the summer.
- MattPeck
- Harris
- Marco will geohash on weekends and holidays, and probably during his vacation.
- Shannon
- tonsofpcs lives just outside this graticule and may show up
- HeadKase will be there if the MTA lets him.
- phil_s_stein Will try to be there, but can't swim - so maybe not.
Issues
This seems to be one instance where the incredibly cool XKCD geohashing scheme fails. Many New Yorkers located in the city do not have cars due to the availability of public transportation and the lack of space to park said car. Because of this, people may instead choose to be lazy and not use the train to go out to Long Island. This could be solved by congregating at or near the closest train (LIRR, MTA, Metro North) station when hashes occur in generally unreachable locations.
