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 graticule is among the most populous 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.

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.

Recent locations

Oct 24, 2011: On the Columbia Trail in the Ken Lockwood Gorge Wildlife Management Area. Very reachable! On this map, it seems to be on section three, Hunterdon County, about a mile north on the trail from Cokesbury Road.

Nov 12, 2011: Looks like it's on the sidewalk next to the Harding Library. Definitely reachable.

Nov 22, 2011: In Morristown National Historical Park, close to Primrose Brook and east of Jockey Hollow. A challenge, but reachable through the woods.

Dec 14, 2011: In Cheesequake State Park, though not in one of the more publicly accessible areas. Easier to reach by walking across Matawan Rd. from the apartments/neighborhood nearby.

Retrohash

The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is challenging but 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
• Spindizzy

Attempted geohashes

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• Wednesday, January 18 (retro): Jevanyn starts 2011 off with a day-late Deja Vu Speed Racer geohash.

• Thursday, December 8: Spindizzy and Jevanyn almost cross paths again

• Monday, December 5: Norz Hill Farm in South Branch. Jevanyn was there this summer, long before the geohash was. No expedition, just some baaaaad farm puns.

• November 16: There is ... a house ... in Bridgewater ....

• Sunday, October 16: Spindizzy takes advantage of low foot traffic to reach the geohash.

• Wednesday, October 12: Completely unplanned, two geohashers visit the same geohash two hours apart.

• Monday, October 10: Spindizzy stopped by, but the geohash was well back into private property.

• Tuesday, October 4: Jevanyn dragged Kyukket to Hillside. Made him do the driving, too :-P

• Friday, September 30: A brief side trip to Branchburg, made briefer by the arrival of the residents!

• Thursday, September 1: Jevanyn stopped by on the way to Cape May.

• Monday, July 4: Jevanyn in a grassy field in Belle Mead.

• Friday, June 17: Jevanyn has one right down the road from his house.

• Wednesday, May 25: Jabib tried for it on the front end of a double geohash

• Caturday, May 21: Geohashing day.

• Thursday, May 12: Jabib and Orangutan join the fray, and were met by many insects.

• Friday, May 6: A suburban street in Warren, NJ.

• Wednesday, April 27: Second Watching Mountain, Bridgewater, NJ.

• Saturday, March 19: Zubenelgenubi stopped by a farm in Monroe.

• Saturday, February 5: Jevanyn stopped by in Plainfield on the way to a Chinese New Year party.

• Saturday, New Year's Day 2011: Jevanyn and Gwynnath made a quick stop on the way to a wedding.

Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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.