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== Issues == | == Issues == | ||
Revision as of 13:55, 19 June 2008
| Newburgh, NY | Danbury, CT | Hartford, CT |
| Newark, NJ | New York, New York | Riverhead, NY |
| Atlantic City, NJ | – | – |
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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
- Andrew L hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Joe will geohash when in town, but is at school for most of the summer.
- MattPeck
- Harris
- Marco will geohash on weekends and holidays, and probably during his vacation.
- Shannon
- tonsofpcs lives just outside this graticule and may show up
- HeadKase will be there if the MTA lets him.
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.
