Newark, New Jersey

Scranton, PA	Newburgh, NY	Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA	Newark	New York City
Philadelphia, PA	Atlantic City	39,-73
Today's location: not yet announced

The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This may be the most populous graticule in the United States, with a population in the neighborhood of 7 million people. It includes almost the entire northern half of New Jersey, the most densely populated state (Census), as well as Staten Island, western sections of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York, and a part of Pennsylvania northeast of Philadelphia. In addition, other than Raritan Bay, there are no large sections of water.

Thanks to Meteorswarm, we have a Facebook group for the "North Jersey" graticule. Meet-ups can be coordinated here or there.

Daily Locations

Heavy snow Friday, take this into account when trying to reach geohashes!

Coordinates for 2010-02-26: 40.7236650, -74.9009606

A forest-covered hill east of Red Mill, off Red Mill Road, in Hunterdon County. Looks like it's adjacent to a parcel of Open Space^(R), so it's reachable, snow cover notwithstanding.

Coordinates for 2010-02-27: 40.6032878, -74.7406376

Behind a house on Honeyman Rd. N, in Whitehouse, Somerset County.

Coordinates for 2010-02-28: 40.7557524, -74.4283349

The garage of a house on Glenwild Rd., across from Drew University in Madison, Morris County.

Jevanyn:Is anyone interested in a meetup on campus?

Cities in this Graticule

New Jersey	New York	Pennsylvania
Newark	Staten Island	New Hope
Jersey City	Lower Manhattan	Levittown
New Brunswick	Parts of Brooklyn	Langhorne
Trenton

Local Geohashers

• Madalis
• bjimba
• krip
• trntr
• TorsionalMetric
• Direwulf
• Jevanyn
• LangleyLGLF (When @Rutgers)
• Esteban
• Science Works!
• sve
• Zubenelgenubi
• Mike
• darko
• jimpoz
• RminusQ
• Brandon 20px and his father
• GISninja
• BlastOButter42, but probably only if it's near the city and New York's isn't closer
• AlexF
• Knitting Duck
• Flashbullzeye
• Kyukket

Attempted geohashes

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• Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.

• Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meetup at Woodbridge Mall.

• Monday, February 1: A chilly evening geohash, but only two towns from home for Jevanyn.

• Saturday, January 23: Saturday's geohash was a walk in the park, literally!

• Tuesday, January 5: Jevanyn tried for a birthday geohash with his new GPS, but the location was not reachable.

Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008 and 2009.

Links

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[Bing Maps] with Bird's Eye view, better idea of scale and finding paths through complicated terrain.

[Zillow] real estate valuation site, to find out if it's private property / a rough neighborhood / both.

[NJ Transit] for public transportation geohashes

And of course [Wikipedia] to find out which township/borough/county a geohash is in :-)

Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.