Newark, New Jersey

Scranton, PA	Newburgh, NY	Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA	Newark	New York City
Philadelphia, PA	Atlantic City	39,-73
Today's location: not yet announced

Our Graticule

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.

Quotable quotes

• A rum keg tapped at both ends.

-- Benjamin Franklin

• The Tollbooth State

-- George Carlin

• Only the Strong Survive

-- Popular New Jersey T-shirt

Suggested Meetup Locations

Interesting reachable locations will be posted the same day as they come up. The 80%-90% rate of private property discourages me from updating more often.

Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through activegeohasher.com.

Meetups will typically be on Saturday afternoon, at a time to be determined to maximize turnout. The location will be the most interesting and/or accessible of the week; typically open to discussion.

2010-11-05

Friday's geohash is on Colburn Rd. in East Brunswick, close to the NJ-18 / NJ Turnpike interchange, and shouting distance from Rutgers' Cook/Douglass campus.

2010-11-06

In the parking lot of the Sears on NJ-35 in Middletown.

2010-11-07

In the woods south/west of Tempe Wick Rd. near Leddel Rd. There is a private residence in the area, but the geohash itself is reachable. West of Morristown National Historic Park.

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!

Cities in this Graticule

New Jersey	New York	Pennsylvania
Newark	Staten Island	Torresdale, Philadelphia*
Jersey City	Lower Manhattan	New Hope
New Brunswick	Parts of Brooklyn	Levittown
Trenton		Langhorne

 * - The 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

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• Thursday, 7 October: Jevanyn got to within line of sight, but was not expecting so many obstacles.

• Tuesday, 17 August: Jevanyn is back in action, this time with a ten-mile cycling trek to Edison.

• Thursday, 5 August: Twain twacks! (Update: They're power lines. Ewectwon Twacks?)

• Wednesday, 4 August: 'Twas Kyukket, 'twas dark.

• Sunday, 25 July: Kyukket reached this one, too.

• Saturday, 24 July: Kyukket was there ... I think.

• 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!

• Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.

• Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.

• 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

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[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 NJ 101.5 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! :-)