Difference between revisions of "2014-04-20 43 -79"

Latest revision as of 00:06, 10 August 2020

Location

Near some public soccer fields near Lord G. Ross park in North York, ON.

Participants

sbear
sbear's girlfriend

Plans

The plan, was simple. Drive into the residential area next to the soccer fields, park on the side of the road that leads into the fields and walk to the location. Little did we know how finicky my GPS software would be...

Expedition

I (sbear) was going to be meeting up with my girlfriend that day so I thought it would be a good idea to bring her along to this geohash, it was only a few km from my place and the weather was perfect at about 10C and sunny. We headed off to the location shortly after noon and quickly made our way to the planned parking spot on the residential street. We entered the soccer field park and walked along an asphalt path which would take us there. Plenty of people were out that day taking advantage of the warm weather. This was also directly under a power-line route with tons of "robot" towers as my girlfriend likes to call them.

We only had to walk a few hundred meters before getting to the location, then it was just a matter of fine-tuning my position until my phone told me I was in the right place. Easier said than done, for some reason that day, my GPS app had an error of about 9m despite a solid fix. I spent about 10 minutes side stepping and front/back stepping until I got the exact location. Given the margin of error however, I figured I was probably not in the exact spot as intended, but looking back on that location using google maps, it turns out that I was spot on!

Regardless, I took a screenshot of my coordinates when reached, took some photos as well as a photosphere (link below) and we spent some more time walking along the path before heading home.

Time of day at coordinates: 1:19 PM EST (GMT -5)

Photos

Parking spot
On approach
Made it!!
Panorama while standing on the coordinates.

Link to photosphere version of the panorama: here

Achievements

sbear earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (43, -79) geohash on 2014-04-20.

sbear earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging sbear's girlfriend to the (43, -79) geohash on 2014-04-20.

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+Near some public soccer fields near Lord G. Ross park in North York, ON.
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+* sbear's girlfriend
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+The plan, was simple. Drive into the residential area next to the soccer fields, park on the side of the road that leads into the fields and walk to the location. Little did we know how finicky my GPS software would be...
 == Expedition ==
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+I (sbear) was going to be meeting up with my girlfriend that day so I thought it would be a good idea to bring her along to this geohash, it was only a few km from my place and the weather was perfect at about 10C and sunny. We headed off to the location shortly after noon and quickly made our way to the planned parking spot on the residential street. We entered the soccer field park and walked along an asphalt path which would take us there. Plenty of people were out that day taking advantage of the warm weather. This was also directly under a power-line route with tons of "robot" towers as my girlfriend likes to call them.
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+We only had to walk a few hundred meters before getting to the location, then it was just a matter of fine-tuning my position until my phone told me I was in the right place. Easier said than done, for some reason that day, my GPS app had an error of about 9m despite a solid fix. I spent about 10 minutes side stepping and front/back stepping until I got the exact location. Given the margin of error however, I figured I was probably not in the exact spot as intended, but looking back on that location using google maps, it turns out that I was spot on!
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+Regardless, I took a screenshot of my coordinates when reached, took some photos as well as a photosphere (link below) and we spent some more time walking along the path before heading home.
+Time of day at coordinates: 1:19 PM EST (GMT -5)
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+Image:2014-04-20 43 -79 1.jpg | Parking spot
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+Image:2014-04-20_43_-79_3.jpg | Panorama while standing on the coordinates.
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+Link to photosphere version of the panorama: [https://plus.google.com/103893288604082559806/posts/8GhrhiFdKe6 here]
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+| longitude = -79
+| date = 2014-04-20
+| name = sbear
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+{{drag-along
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+| date = 2014-04-20
+| partner = sbear's girlfriend
+| name = sbear
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