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Locations are updated daily, and weekend locations are posted on Friday, usually by noon. Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through [http://www.activegeohasher.com/ activegeohasher.com]. Dude yo, they practically email you directions every day. | Locations are updated daily, and weekend locations are posted on Friday, usually by noon. Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through [http://www.activegeohasher.com/ activegeohasher.com]. Dude yo, they practically email you directions every day. | ||
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(7/15) In the woods off Maryland Rd. in the Prospect Point area of Hopatcong. It's in the middle of a one-block area, between houses to the west and Prospect Point Preserve to the east, that is planned for development, but nothing's been done yet. Reachable from the cul-de-sac at the end of Patriot Road to the north. | (7/15) In the woods off Maryland Rd. in the Prospect Point area of Hopatcong. It's in the middle of a one-block area, between houses to the west and Prospect Point Preserve to the east, that is planned for development, but nothing's been done yet. Reachable from the cul-de-sac at the end of Patriot Road to the north. | ||
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| − | : | + | : Friday's geohash takes us to the Heartland Village area of Staten Island, New York, just outside the Latourette Country Club. That's south and east of the covered-over garbage dump on the west side of the island. The geohash is a few yards off Richmond Ave., and it does not look like it's inside the fence around the dump complex, so it should be reachable. It is well within 100m of the roadway, so it's [[Speed Racer]] eligible as well. |
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| − | : A | + | : A house on Windsor Street, on the north side of Bound Brook, Somerset County. |
| − | :: | + | :: I have a murder mystery game that day, so Kyukket and I may show up in costume :-) |
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| − | : In the | + | : In the trees just south of Rushmore Playground's soccer field, in Dunellen, also Somerset County I think. Is that field FIFA legal? |
| − | + | it's not even rectangular. | |
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Revision as of 15:28, 16 July 2010
| Scranton, PA | Newburgh, NY | Danbury, CT |
| Allentown, PA | Newark | New York City |
| Philadelphia, PA | Atlantic City | 39,-73 |
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| “ | A rum keg tapped at both ends.
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—Benjamin Franklin
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| “ | The Tollbooth State
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—George Carlin
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| “ | Only the Strong Survive
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—Popular New Jersey T-shirt
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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.
This page is maintained by I am the decider maintainer. Automatic updates are not desired.
Contents
Locations
Locations are updated daily, and weekend locations are posted on Friday, usually by noon. Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through activegeohasher.com. Dude yo, they practically email you directions every day.
Weekend of 2024-06-07
Coordinates for 2010-07-16: 40.5731138, -74.1707132
- Friday's geohash takes us to the Heartland Village area of Staten Island, New York, just outside the Latourette Country Club. That's south and east of the covered-over garbage dump on the west side of the island. The geohash is a few yards off Richmond Ave., and it does not look like it's inside the fence around the dump complex, so it should be reachable. It is well within 100m of the roadway, so it's Speed Racer eligible as well.
Coordinates for 2010-07-17: 40.5687441, -74.5352076
- A house on Windsor Street, on the north side of Bound Brook, Somerset County.
- I have a murder mystery game that day, so Kyukket and I may show up in costume :-)
Coordinates for 2010-07-18: 40.5965541, -74.4474678
- In the trees just south of Rushmore Playground's soccer field, in Dunellen, also Somerset County I think. Is that field FIFA legal?
it's not even rectangular.
Retrohash
The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is reachable, in Mill Brook, Morris County. If you make an attempt, tell us about it here!
Note from the maintainer
I will no longer include the county with each geohash location, as it takes too long to look up when it isn't obvious. If anyone is pursuing the Regional geohashing achievement for NJ counties, let me know and I will start doing it again.
Cities in this Graticule
| New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania |
| Newark | Staten Island | Philadelphia* |
| Jersey City | Lower Manhattan | New Hope |
| New Brunswick | Parts of Brooklyn | Levittown |
| Trenton | Langhorne |
* - The Torresdale area, in the northern reaches of Philadelphia, is partially within Newark, NJ graticule.
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
- dieKatze88
Attempted geohashes
- Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74
- Thursday, 8 July: Kyukket got picture of the house where the geohash landed.
- Monday, 7 June: Jevanyn's dad went to Thursday's geohash, just not on Thursday :-)
- Saturday, 5 June: Mowdownjoe heads for the geohash near the middle school in Aberdeen.
- Monday, 24 May: Kyukket stopped by in Clark on his way to Clifton. (How is that not out-of-the-way?)
- Friday, 21 May: Jack Bauer was here! (Sort of)
- Miercoles, 5 Mayo: Cinco de Mayo bicicleta geohash!
- Thursday, April 1: April Fools' Day Holy/Tron geohash. That was the plan, anyway...
- Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.
- Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.
- Monday, March 8: I was just here, too!
- Thursday, March 4: Jevanyn has driven past the house a dozen times. But can I prove it?
- Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.
- Sunday, February 28: An easy first geohash for dieKatze88 near Drew University.
- Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.
- Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meet-up 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
[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.
- Google Maps now has a bike trail layer, which is a good start.
In the Media
On April 26, 2010, during the Casey & Rossi call-in show, a discussion about geocaching prompted a Rutgers student(?) to call in and mention geohashing. They of course mocked us as geeks, but we'll show them! :-)
