2020-10-28 43 -79

Wed 28 Oct 2020 in 43,-79: 43.6510216, -79.3876253 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

The Bike Share Toronto location at Queen and Simcoe.

Participants

• Frogman

Expedition

I was pleased to see this very accessible hashpoint and decided to use it as an excuse to get some shopping done downtown.

I took the subway from Warden and right away the journey was fraught! Someone threw a branch onto the tracks and the operator had to go out and retrieve it. Then, not too far from where we stopped for that, the train ran a red signal, which automatically causes an emergency stop. When this happens, the operator has to get out and manually restart the train. The poor guy deserved a break, I think!

At Dundas station I walked a block west to go to the Best Buy to purchase some consumer electronic goods. Afterwards, I headed south to Queen Street so that I could walk past City Hall. I think it's a really attractive building, and it was pleasant to walk through the heart of downtown, looking at the buildings and listening to the buzz of the city.

The hashpoint was a couple of blocks west, at a Bike Share Toronto location next to the Campbell House, which is an old judge's house that now functions as a museum. The GPS signal was really bad, presumably due to the nearby tall buildings. After snapping a few pictures, I took the Queen streetcar back east and walked home from about Queen and Woodbine, which is a nice walk that I do occasionally for non-geohashing reasons.

Photos

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  Waitin for the subway

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  City hall, and that sign that tourists take pictures of. It's me, I'm tourists.

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  I have always liked this monument at Queen and University. Never bothered to find out what it is. Hope it's not too colonialist!

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  Got to the hashpoint. I am actually there; the GPS is lying

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  Here is a picture of the hashpoint, containing such sights as "tree" and "bike share"

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  Here is a picture of the monument. Also, I just looked it up and it's super colonialist so......... oops

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  Here is a picture of the building that messed up my GPS reception. Screw you, building! Nah, just kidding, it's fine.

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  North along Simcoe Street.

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  Waitin for the streetcar

Achievements

Frogman earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -79) geohash on 2020-10-28 via the TTC.