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** [[User:Mattyk|Matty]] will probably go, but it will be before 4pm — have to be back in time for [http://www.tecc.net.au/ work] tonight. | ** [[User:Mattyk|Matty]] will probably go, but it will be before 4pm — have to be back in time for [http://www.tecc.net.au/ work] tonight. | ||
| − | ===Recent Saturday Locations=== | + | ===Recent Unattended Saturday Locations=== |
| − | + | These are only the most potentially accessible Saturday meetup locations. | |
* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-24&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=12&abs=1 Sat, 24-May-2008]. Right near the beach 10 minutes north of Saunders Beach. There's a dirt road you can see on the satellite view. Would have been a great spot! | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-24&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=12&abs=1 Sat, 24-May-2008]. Right near the beach 10 minutes north of Saunders Beach. There's a dirt road you can see on the satellite view. Would have been a great spot! | ||
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* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-06-28&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 28-Jun-2008]. Near an apparent crater and some sort of industrial area (a quarry?) near Dotswood... wherever that is. | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-06-28&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 28-Jun-2008]. Near an apparent crater and some sort of industrial area (a quarry?) near Dotswood... wherever that is. | ||
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* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-07-12&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 12-Jul-2008]. Near Dotswood again. There's some sort of dirt road on the satellite view. | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-07-12&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 12-Jul-2008]. Near Dotswood again. There's some sort of dirt road on the satellite view. | ||
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* [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-08-16&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 16-Aug-2008]. Someone's front yard at Alice River. Definitely doable. | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-08-16&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 16-Aug-2008]. Someone's front yard at Alice River. Definitely doable. | ||
| − | + | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-09-27&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 27-Sep-2008]. Out near the Towers, just north of the river. There's a dirt track from the highway, past a homestead, to the point (200m off), so maybe doable. <span style="font-size:80%;white-space:pre;">(''*sigh*'' —[[User:Mattyk|Matty]])</span> | |
| − | * [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-09-27&lat=-20&long=146&zoom=13&abs=1 Sat, 27-Sep-2008]. Out near the Towers, just north of the river. There's a dirt track from the highway, past a homestead, to the point (200m off), so maybe doable. | ||
===Links for upcoming Saturdays=== | ===Links for upcoming Saturdays=== | ||
Revision as of 11:48, 5 October 2008
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Contents
Townsville
The Townsville graticule is a pretty good one. It neatly includes Magnetic Island, Crystal Creek and Paluma in the north (but not as far as Paluma Dam), Alligator Creek in the east, and almost reaches Charters Towers in the west. Most of the middle will be pretty hard to get to by road but there is some potential.
Graticule Links
Local Geohashers
Simon made this page. He doesn't own a GPS and isn't all that serious about actually Geohashing for real. But he might just check the coordinates once in a while and... maybe... Anyone else out there?
Matty K created the following abomination: http://geohashing.kerwin.net.au/ It reduces the Townsville graticule by another order of magnitude (0.125°×0.125° — approx. 10km×10km). Unfortunately he can't be bothered making it suck less. However, if people are interested in using either this or the official algorithm to meet up randomly on Saturdays, he's willing. He also made the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23713782409
Geohashes
- 2008-09-20 -19 146 ← out near Woodstock.
- 2008-10-04 -19 146 ← failed
(See: Category:Meetup in -19 146)
Current Location
- Sat, 4-Oct-2008. Just on the Mt Stuart side of the Ross Dam. According to Google's satellite view it's in a little valley 500m (over a largeish ridge) from Angus Smith Drive, or 300m (over a small ridge) from a little radial track.
Recent Unattended Saturday Locations
These are only the most potentially accessible Saturday meetup locations.
- Sat, 24-May-2008. Right near the beach 10 minutes north of Saunders Beach. There's a dirt road you can see on the satellite view. Would have been a great spot!
- Sat, 28-Jun-2008. Near an apparent crater and some sort of industrial area (a quarry?) near Dotswood... wherever that is.
- Sat, 12-Jul-2008. Near Dotswood again. There's some sort of dirt road on the satellite view.
- Sat, 16-Aug-2008. Someone's front yard at Alice River. Definitely doable.
- Sat, 27-Sep-2008. Out near the Towers, just north of the river. There's a dirt track from the highway, past a homestead, to the point (200m off), so maybe doable. (*sigh* —Matty)
Links for upcoming Saturdays
Please Note: until the time comes, these links will be inaccurate as they depend on data that isn't known yet. If you can accurately predict the stock market ahead of time, please let us know.
