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The Twin Cities Graticules: Minneapolis, NW Minneapolis, SW, Saint Paul, NE, Saint Paul, SE

Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Paul, Minnesota

The Twin Cities area is subdivided into four graticules.

Minneapolis NW, Minnesota including Northern Suburbs of the Twin Cities, bordered on the East by I-35
Minneapolis SW, Minnesota extending down to Mankato and absorbing most of St. Paul
St. Paul NE, Minnesota extending into Wisconsin and including nearly all of St. Croix State Park
St. Paul SE, Minnesota including I-94 on its North end and the majority of Rochester

Documenting New Expeditions

If you want to shoot for completeness when documenting an expedition in the Twin Cities area, make sure you add links to it in the following places:

Under the expeditions for the day in the Recent and Upcoming Expeditions section of the Main Page
The list of daily locations/successful meetups in the individual graticule
The list of completed geohashes on this page
Add it to your user page if you made it!

Be sure to add the following code at the top of the individual meetup's page:

{{meetup graticule
| lat=44
| lon=-93
| date=2008-06-03
}}

Neighboring Graticules

Brainerd	Aitkin	Duluth	Hayward, WI
St. Cloud	Twin Cities, Minnesota		Rice Lake, WI
Hutchinson	Twin Cities, Minnesota		Eau Claire, WI
Estherville, IA	Albert Lea	Austin	La Crosse, WI

Hash Attempts

Sunday, May 16, 2010

2010-05-16: 44.9723779, -92.7647325 - On a jetty easily accessible from downtown Hudson. Nathan lives nearby, and plans to be there around 4, unless otherwise pre-arranged, near Hudson, WI (about 10m or 10 miles by car from Woodbury, MN)

Monday, February 8, 2010

2010-02-08: 44.8622101°, -93.1484796° - Center of Eastbound I-494, just West of I-35E, perfect for a Speed racer achievement on the way home!, near St. Paul (about 7 minutes or 6 miles by car from MSP Airport)}

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

2010-02-02: 44.9076735°, -93.0132567° - Along US Hwy 61, North of I-494, near St. Paul (about 9 minutes or 4 miles by car from St. Paul)

Friday, January 29, 2010

2010-11-29: 44.9764839°, -93.2515805° - Downtown Minneapolis, three blocks from the Guthrie, near Minneapolis (about 4 minutes or 1.5 miles by car from Washington Avenue SE and Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

2009-11-10: 45.023349°, -93.228005° - Just off the sidewalk in front of a house in the St Anthony area. Maybe not too scenic but easily attainable. Mark could drive up from Rochester if there's interest with Rhonda being in the area to represent the Vancouver geohashers. He has a meeting until 4:00 though and it'd take 1.5 hours to drive up so it'd be an evening event., near St Anthony (about 0m or 0 miles by car from St Anthony, MN)

Sunday, November 8, 2009

2009-11-08: 44.680894°, -92.748589° - Other side of a lake from the road. Rhonda will try to get away from work noonish and also intends to explore the park and see the Mississippi River, which I have never seen before, near Hastings (about 50m or 25 miles by car from Apple Valley, MN)

Times and distances are from google. It must have picked some slow roads.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

The NW graticule's spot:

2008-06-07: 45.501784°, -93.114371° - On a field (possible cultivated), near North Branch (about 1 hour or 50 miles by car from Minneapolis, MN)

Anyone planning on being there? Quite a drive!

Sunday

Completed Geohashes

2009-12-05: 45.058055°, -92.929841° - By Mahtimedi High School, near Mahtomedi, MN (about 25 minutes or 16.5 miles by car from St. Paul, MN)
- Geohash reached. Nathan made his first geohash to visit the field at 4:00.

2008-12-06: 44.711202°, -93.322354° - , near Between Lakeville, Apple Valley, and Savage (about 30 minutes or 22.5 miles by car from Minneapolis, MN)

Adem made an expedition there. He arrived late, but it was clear from the lack of footprints in the snow that no one had arrived before him.

2008-06-03: 44.957992°, -93.128935° - On St Albans St N between Charles and Edmund Ave, near St Paul (about 1m or 1 miles by car from St Paul, MN)

Joel went by there at 1pm and snapped a photo.

Also reached by Erica and her cousin Lauren around 4pm.

2008-05-31: 45.037487°, -93.281267° - Between the west bank of the Mississippi and a water treatment plant, near Minneapolis, MN (about 5 min or 1 mile by car from Minneapolis, MN)

Successful attempt. Joel made it to the spot at 4pm but there was no one there. Very cool that it was a spot close to the city on a Saturday, but a pretty difficult location to reach.

2008-05-25: 44.941774°, -93.182874° - At the intersection of Summit Avenue and Prior Ave N in St. Paul (about 14m or 6.2 miles by car from Minneapolis, MN)

Geohash reached. Abi, Erica, Ford and Erica's friend Chris (not to be confused with the other Chris) played games in the greenway in the middle of Summit Avenue until we were chased away by the storm.

(others to be posted)

Local Geohashers

Rob - Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota
Mike - Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota
Erica - Home Graticule: St. Paul SE, Minnesota
Abi - Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota
Joel - Home Graticule: Minneapolis NW, Minnesota
Scott - Home Graticule: St. Paul SE, Minnesota
Adem - Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota
Alan - Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota
Nathan - Home Graticule: St. Paul SE, Minnesota
Aaron -- Home Graticule: Minneapolis SW, Minnesota

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-[[Image:MSP_Graticules.png|thumb|300px|The Twin Cities [[Graticule]]s]]
+[[Image:MSP_Graticules.png|thumb|300px|The Twin Cities [[Graticule]]s: {{Today's location|lat=45|lon=-93|text=Minneapolis, NW}} {{Today's location|lat=44|lon=-93|text=Minneapolis, SW}}, {{Today's location|lat=45|lon=-92|text=Saint Paul, NE}}, {{Today's location|lat=44|lon=-92|text=Saint Paul, SE}} ]]
 == Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Paul, Minnesota ==
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 * [[St. Paul SE, Minnesota]] including I-94 on its North end and the majority of Rochester
-[[Category:North America]][[Category:Minnesota]][[Category:Split_Cities]]
+=== Documenting New Expeditions ===
+If you want to shoot for completeness when documenting an expedition in the Twin Cities area, make sure you add links to it in the following places:
-== Graticule Links ==
+* Under the expeditions for the day in the [[Main_Page#Recent_and_Upcoming_Expeditions|Recent and Upcoming Expeditions section]] of the Main Page
-* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=45&long=-93&zoom=9&abs=-1 Minneapolis, NW]
+* The list of daily locations/successful meetups in the individual graticule
-* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=44&long=-93&zoom=9&abs=-1 Minneapolis, SW]
+* The list of completed geohashes on this page
-* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=45&long=-92&zoom=9&abs=-1 Saint Paul, NE]
+* Add it to your user page if you made it!
-* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=44&long=-92&zoom=9&abs=-1 Saint Paul, SE]
+Be sure to add the following code at the top of the individual meetup's page:
+ <nowiki>
+{{meetup graticule
+| lat=44
+| lon=-93
+| date=2008-06-03
+}}
+</nowiki>
+== Neighboring Graticules ==
+<table cellspacing="5" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em;">
+<tr>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Brainerd, Minnesota|Brainerd]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Aitkin, Minnesota|Aitkin]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Hayward, Wisconsin|Hayward, WI]]</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+    <td style="text-align:center">[[St. Cloud, Minnesota|St. Cloud]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center; background-color: #f3f3f3" colspan="2" rowspan="2"><b>Twin Cities, Minnesota</b></td>
+    <td style="text-align:center">[[Rice Lake, Wisconsin|Rice Lake, WI]]</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Hutchinson, Minnesota|Hutchinson]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Eau Claire, Wisconsin|Eau Claire, WI]]</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Estherville, Iowa|Estherville, IA]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Albert Lea, Minnesota|Albert Lea]]</td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[Austin, Minnesota|Austin]] </td>
+    <td style="text-align:center" >[[La Crosse, Wisconsin|La Crosse, WI]]</td>
+</tr></table>
+== Hash Attempts ==
+===Sunday, May 16, 2010===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2010-05-16
+|spot= On a jetty easily accessible from downtown Hudson.  [[User:Yuwtze|Nathan]] lives nearby, and plans to be there around 4, unless otherwise pre-arranged
+|nearcity=Hudson, WI
+|coords=44.9723779, -92.7647325
+|drivetime=10m
+|drivedist=10 miles
+|drivefrom=Woodbury, MN}}
+===Monday, February 8, 2010===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=[[2010-02-08 44 -93|2010-02-08]]
+|spot=Center of Eastbound I-494, just West of I-35E, perfect for a [[Speed racer achievement]] on the way home!
+|nearcity=St. Paul
+|coords=44.8622101°, -93.1484796°
+|drivetime=7 minutes
+|drivedist=6 miles
+|drivefrom=MSP Airport}}}
+===Tuesday, February 2, 2010===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=[[2010-02-02 44 -93|2010-02-02]]
+|spot=Along US Hwy 61, North of I-494
+|nearcity=St. Paul
+|coords=44.9076735°, -93.0132567°
+|drivetime=9 minutes
+|drivedist=4 miles
+|drivefrom=St. Paul}}
+===Friday, January 29, 2010===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2010-11-29
+|spot=Downtown Minneapolis, three blocks from the Guthrie
+|nearcity=Minneapolis
+|coords=44.9764839°, -93.2515805°
+|drivetime=4 minutes
+|drivedist=1.5 miles
+|drivefrom=Washington Avenue SE and Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN}}
+===Tuesday, November 10, 2009===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2009-11-10
+|spot= Just off the sidewalk in front of a house in the St Anthony area.  Maybe not too scenic but easily attainable.  [[User:Trane|Mark]] could drive up from Rochester if there's interest with Rhonda being in the area to represent the Vancouver geohashers.  He has a meeting until 4:00 though and it'd take 1.5 hours to drive up so it'd be an evening event.
+|nearcity=St Anthony
+|coords=45.023349°, -93.228005°
+|drivetime=0m
+|drivedist=0 miles
+|drivefrom=St Anthony, MN}}
+===Sunday, November 8, 2009===
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2009-11-08
+|spot= Other side of a lake from the road.  [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] will try to get away from work noonish and also intends to explore the park and see the Mississippi River, which I have never seen before
+|nearcity=Hastings
+|coords=44.680894°, -92.748589°
+|drivetime=50m
+|drivedist=25 miles
+|drivefrom=Apple Valley, MN}}
+:Times and distances are from google. It must have picked some slow roads.
+==== Saturday, June 7, 2008 ====
+The NW graticule's spot: {{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2008-06-07
+|spot=On a field (possible cultivated)
+|nearcity=North Branch
+|coords=45.501784°, -93.114371°
+|drivetime=1 hour
+|drivedist=50 miles
+|drivefrom=Minneapolis, MN}}
+:Anyone planning on being there? Quite a drive!
+==== Sunday ====
 == Completed Geohashes ==
-(this needs editing)
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2009-12-05
+|spot=By Mahtimedi High School
+|nearcity=Mahtomedi, MN
+|coords=45.058055°, -92.929841°
+|drivetime=25 minutes
+|drivedist=16.5 miles
+|drivefrom=St. Paul, MN}}
+**[[2009-12-05 45 -92|Geohash reached]].  [[User:Yuwtze|Nathan]] made his first geohash to visit the field at 4:00.
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2008-12-06
+|spot=
+|nearcity=Between Lakeville, Apple Valley, and Savage
+|coords=44.711202°, -93.322354°
+|drivetime=30 minutes
+|drivedist=22.5 miles
+|drivefrom=Minneapolis, MN}}
+[[User:Ademrudin|Adem]] made an [[2008-12-06 44 -93|expedition]] there.  He arrived late, but it was clear from the lack of footprints in the snow that no one had arrived before him.
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2008-06-03
+|spot=On St Albans St N between Charles and Edmund Ave
+|nearcity=St Paul
+|coords=44.957992°, -93.128935°
+|drivetime=1m
+|drivedist=1 miles
+|drivefrom=St Paul, MN}}
+: [[User:Joel|Joel]] went by there at 1pm and [[2008-06-03_44_-93|snapped a photo]].
+: Also [[2008-06-03_44_-93|reached]] by Erica and her cousin Lauren around 4pm.
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2008-05-31
+|spot=Between the west bank of the Mississippi and a water treatment plant
+|nearcity=Minneapolis, MN
+|coords=45.037487°, -93.281267°
+|drivetime=5 min
+|drivedist=1 mile
+|drivefrom=Minneapolis, MN}}
+[[2008-05-31 45 -93|Successful attempt]]. [[User:Joel|Joel]] made it to the spot at 4pm but there was no one there. Very cool that it was a spot close to the city on a Saturday, but a pretty difficult location to reach.
+{{User:Ironiridis/daily
+|dt=2008-05-25
+|spot=At the intersection of Summit Avenue and Prior Ave N in St. Paul
+|coords=44.941774°, -93.182874°
+|drivetime=14m
+|drivedist=6.2 miles
+|drivefrom=Minneapolis, MN}}
+[[2008-05-25 44 -93|Geohash reached]]. Abi, Erica, Ford and Erica's friend Chris (not to be confused with the other [[User:ironiridis|Chris]]) played games in the greenway in the middle of Summit Avenue until we were chased away by the storm.
+(others to be posted)
 == Local Geohashers ==
 * [[User:Redsai|Rob]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Mbrad|Mike]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Pansy|Erica]] - Home Graticule: [[St. Paul SE, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Springbok|Abi]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Joel|Joel]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis NW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Shacamin|Scott]] - Home Graticule: [[St. Paul SE, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Ademrudin|Adem]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:BikeMN|Alan]] - Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Yuwtze|Nathan]] - Home Graticule: [[St. Paul SE, Minnesota]]
+* [[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron]] -- Home Graticule: [[Minneapolis SW, Minnesota]]
-[[Category:United States]]
 [[Category:Minnesota]]
-[[Category:Split Cities]]
+[[Category:Split cities]]