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

Daily geohash

2013-01-11: Hudson County correctional facility. Which is a shame, b/c it's only 3-4 miles from where I work, along a NJT bus route.

2013-01-12: On NJ route 36, just over into the NYC graticule, or just over the Delaware in PA

2013-01-13: Only a mile or two west of Saturday's geohash, if anyone wants an easy multihash!

Twitter

Future geohashing locations will be discussed via Twitter @jevanyn #geohashNJ #geohashNewark #geohashAC #geohashCapeMay

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 are usually worked out between geohashers when an accessible location comes up. Get to know your neighbors :-)

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 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
• Anonymosity
• Askew
• Mischief

Attempted geohashes

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• July 8: Jevanyn in Atlantic Highlands with the kids.

• July 6: Jevanyn exploring horse country.

• June 19: Mischief making mischief.

• June 24: Zubenelgenubi by a ditch in Pigeon Swamp.

• May 28: A special veteran-honoring Memorial Day geohash expedition.

• May 20: Zubenelgenubi visited a boring Monmouth County neighborhood.

• Pi Day: A couple of folks tried Diplomacy, but were thwarted (this despite bringing a pie!)

• Friday, February 18: NWoodruff In the Upper bay of Newark due east of Newark Liberty International Airport.

• Sunday, January 21: A side road in a relatively rural area of Hillsborough.

• Wednesday, January 18 (retro): Jevanyn starts 2012 off with a day-late Deja Vu Speed Racer geohash.

Archived geohashing expeditions: 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011.

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.