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== Daily Location ==
 
== Daily Location ==
[[http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=41&long=-75&zoom=9&abs=-1 '''Today's Location:''']]
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== Cities in this Graticule ==
 
== Cities in this Graticule ==
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== Local Geohashers ==
 
== Local Geohashers ==
* [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] lives in [[Newark, New Jersey|North Jersey]], and will try for geohashes that are reasonably close.
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* [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] lives in [[Newark, New Jersey|North Jersey]], and has made multiple attempts at geohashes in the thin sliver of NJ that is in the SE corner of this graticule.  Also, if anyone makes plans for a meetup in Scranton, LMK.
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* [[User:TimAsch|TimAsch]] Lives in Benton, PA. Being as he does not have a private mode of transportation, he can only go to the ones that are near him. he plans on taking his friend to some geohashes by the end of the month, if all goes as planned.
  
 
== Notable Activities ==
 
== Notable Activities ==
2009-10-04: [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] had plans to go hiking through Worthington Park, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, but was too sick to make the expedition.
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[[2009-10-04 41 -75|2009-10-04]]: [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] had plans to go hiking through Worthington Park, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, but was too sick to make the expedition.
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[[2011-03-06 41 -75|2011-03-06]]: [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] tried for a midnight geohash, but the hashpoint was several hundred yards from the closest landmark, and he thought the better of it.
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[[2011-08-22 41 -75|2011-08-22]]: The geohash was within the grounds of the power plant along the Delaware.
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'''2013-03-08''': (Jevanyn) I can't even try it, I'm working 60 miles away, and there is a lot of snow falling. Maybe I can retro-hash it.
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[[2014-08-23 41 -75|2014-08-23]]: [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] achieved this graticule's first documented successful geohash.
  
2011-03-06: The geohash is on the New Jersey side of the Delaware. [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] may try to reach it, at midnight or on Sunday afternoon.
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== Achievements ==
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{{Graticule unlocked|name=[[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] ([[User talk:Jevanyn|talk]])|latitude=41|longitude=-75|date=2014-08-23}}
  
 
[[Category:Pennsylvania]]
 
[[Category:Pennsylvania]]

Latest revision as of 03:51, 20 March 2024

Ithaca, New York Binghamton, New York Cooperstown, New York
Berwick Scranton Newburgh, New York
Harrisburg Allentown Newark, New Jersey

Today's location: not yet announced

The Scranton, Pennsylvania graticule is at latitude 41N, longitude -75W. It is entirely landlocked, and lies mostly within Pennsylvania. It includes parts of Delaware and Sullivan counties in New York state, and a small portion of Sussex or Warren county, New Jersey.

Daily Location

Today's Location:

Cities in this Graticule

  • Scranton
  • Wilkes-Barre
  • Carbondale
  • East Stroudsburg

Local Geohashers

  • Jevanyn lives in North Jersey, and has made multiple attempts at geohashes in the thin sliver of NJ that is in the SE corner of this graticule. Also, if anyone makes plans for a meetup in Scranton, LMK.
  • TimAsch Lives in Benton, PA. Being as he does not have a private mode of transportation, he can only go to the ones that are near him. he plans on taking his friend to some geohashes by the end of the month, if all goes as planned.

Notable Activities

Main page: Category:Meetup in 41 -75

2009-10-04: Jevanyn had plans to go hiking through Worthington Park, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, but was too sick to make the expedition.

2011-03-06: Jevanyn tried for a midnight geohash, but the hashpoint was several hundred yards from the closest landmark, and he thought the better of it.

2011-08-22: The geohash was within the grounds of the power plant along the Delaware.

2013-03-08: (Jevanyn) I can't even try it, I'm working 60 miles away, and there is a lot of snow falling. Maybe I can retro-hash it.

2014-08-23: Jevanyn achieved this graticule's first documented successful geohash.

Achievements

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Jevanyn (talk) earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (41, -75) graticule, here, on 2014-08-23.