Difference between revisions of "Newark, New Jersey"

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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

Coordinates for 2024-11-04: 40.3864628, -74.9861810

(3/1) The wooded backyard of a house at the end of Chaucer Ct., close to Mt. Airy Rd., in the Liberty Corner area of Bernards Township, Somerset County.

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

^{Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74}

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.

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-(2/25) In the back yard of an apartment building, near the corner of Wagner Pl. and 40th St., in Irvington.  The apartment building faces 40th St., but the yard is closer to Wagner Pl. And looking at the back of the house, either it's sinking, or someone did a really bad job joining the Google Street View pictures together.
+(3/1) The wooded backyard of a house at the end of Chaucer Ct., close to Mt. Airy Rd., in the Liberty Corner area of Bernards Township, Somerset County.
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 : The garage of a house on Glenwild Rd., across from [[wikipedia:Drew University|Drew University]] in Madison, Morris County.
 ::[[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]]:''Is anyone interested in a meetup on campus?''
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 == Cities in this Graticule ==

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