Difference between revisions of "New York, New York"

Revision as of 15:54, 27 May 2008

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The New York City graticule is at latitude 40, longitude -73. It includes most of New York City (minus the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan -- who needs 'em? -- and extreme western Brooklyn) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. (If only over half of our graticule wasn't over water)

Today's Location: [New York, NY]

Activities

Oleo will try to get to the coordinates, but doesn't have a car.

There is a facebook group for New York, NY geohashers. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19859510038

Notable Events

Local Geohashers

Oleo
Barney
Patrick
Zach
Dan
Caroline hopes to geohash over the summer.
Andrew hopes to geohash over the summer.
Jessi
Your name here

Issues

This seems to be one instance where the incredibly cool XKCD geohashing scheme fails. Many New Yorkers located in the city do not have cars due to the availability of public transportation and the lack of space to park said car. Because of this, people may instead choose to be lazy and not use the train to go out to Long Island. This could be solved by congregating at or near the closest train (LIRR, MTA, Metro North) station when hashes occur in generally unreachable locations.

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 * [[User:Posalootly|Caroline]] hopes to geohash over the summer.
 * [[User:Conti|Andrew]] hopes to geohash over the summer.
-* [[User:Jessi|Jessi]] keeps getting geohashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but willing to travel anywhere that does not necessitate a boat.
+* [[User:Jessi|Jessi]]
 * Your name here

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