2009-05-25 -37 144

Mon 25 May 2009 in -37,144: -37.8255090, 144.9563807 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

The Place

-37.825509°, 144.95638°. Under a palm tree, right in the centre median of Normanby Road, near where it connects onto Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This is just off the southern corner of the Melbourne CBD and thus a very coincidental geohash location.

Who is going

Felix Dance

Finding this one was quite a shock. The location is within 500m of my construction site where I work as a site engineer (and the site is quite compact), only a couple of hundred or so metres further from my office on the same street: Normanby Road (qualifying me for the Cubical Geohash Honorable Mention Award), and within only 1.5kms from my own house - allowing me to just miss the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention Award. What a find!

Of course, the day is a Monday, so not the celebrated Saturday Geohash - but this is compensated by it being within striking distance from my place of work on a work day.

To cap off my geohashing luck, the day before I went on a separate geohashing expedition, also successful, to the adjoining graticule. Read about my exploits at 2009-05-24 -37 145.

My original plan was to have a shot at it at lunch time, but I went to the city for dumplings with my workmates instead. On the drive into the city I passed the geohash location by within 5 metres.

Soon after lunch I made a real attempt. With my GPS and camera in hand, and my safety gear to get onto site, I trudged down the road to get to the location. Just as I got there the heavens opened up and it started to rain fairly heavily, but I persevered. Crossing the road - a fraught activity in itself and not without danger - I managed to reach the location, taking many photos some of which are displayed below.

Since the geohash location is also virtually dead on my usual route to the city I plan to reach the point twice more as I go out tonight.

Photos

• GPS at Hashpoint.JPG.