2018-04-28 42 -85

Sat 28 Apr 2018 in 42,-85: 42.9032208, -85.7637380 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Wedgwood Park, Grandville, MI

Participants

• Mcbaneg (talk) (George)

Expedition

I've been out of the game for a while. This was a Saturday hashpoint easily accessible by public transportation, the rest of the family is away, it was sunny and pleasant outside, and my grading is done for the semester: time to return to geohashing.

The bus schedule was encouraging: from the usual stop near my house either #5 or 6 went to Central Station, 10-minute layover, bus #8 directly to the park entrance, half an hour to wander around and find the hashpoint, #8 back to the station, 10-minute layover, and either #5 or 6 back home. This is a good schedule for a Saturday.

At the park it was easy to find the hashpoint in a grassy field close to the road. I was there a few minutes before 4. A woman carrying an iPad came wandering over and asked whether I was playing Pokemon Go. I said no, I was playing a sort of similar thing called geohashing. It appears there was a Pokemon egg at today's hashpoint that she was trying to collect. She was frustrated because she couldn't get a good enough Internet connection to get credit for it, though she could see that she was in the right place. We had a short but pleasant conversation.

I waited around until 4 pm. Right about then a guy pulled up in the closest parking space while looking at his phone, and I momentarily thought I might actually get to meet another geohasher. But he stayed in his car and seemed uninterested in random spots in the field in front of him. I decided he was just one of the bazillions of people who look at their phones while driving. I walked back to the road to catch the 4:08 bus toward home.

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  Map shot from Central Station.

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  Bus #8 headed toward hashpoint. After I took this picture I got in line and boarded the bus. The driver asked me, somewhat skeptically, "What was the picture for?".

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  Map shot from bus stop near park.

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  Proof (closest).

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  Proof (4 pm).

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  Grin.

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  View WSW.

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  View NW.

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  View S.

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  American Legion memorial. The main plaque had names of WWI and WWII veterans. The side plaques listed Korea and Vietnam names. Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc. didn't appear.

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  View from east side of road back west toward park entrance.

Achievements

George earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2018-04-28 via The Rapid routes 5 and 8.