Difference between revisions of "New York, New York"

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The New York City graticule is at latitude 40, longitude -73. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. Sigh, if only our graticule were not mostly sea water... On the bright side, non-preppies can now visit the Greenwich, CT islands in this graticule via Metro North and ferry.

Today's Location: [New York, NY]

There is a facebook group for New York, NY geohashers. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19859510038

Notable Events

2009-02-26 - Brandon took the subway to this graticule's first geohash. About time!

Local Geohashers

Oleo will try to get to the coordinates, but doesn't have a car.
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
HeadKase will be there if the MTA lets him.
phil_s_stein Will try to be there, but can't swim - so maybe not.
Ryelle is currently across the country, but will try to go between returning and going off to school.
Rob G will be there when his gas tank permits it.
Mike lives in Queens and might drive to some of these.
Moare is going to Hofstra this fall and hopes to join in.
Greg is in the city once or twice a year, and may try to join a Saturday meetup.
Brandon technically is in the corner of Manhattan which falls in 40, -74, but will hash in the city when the point falls there.

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 are disinclined to take the train 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.

Another possible solution would be to use a Half-graticule algorithm to increase the chances of land-based geohashes.

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 * [[User:Harris|Harris]]
 * [[User:Marco|Marco]] will geohash on weekends and holidays, and probably during his vacation.
-* [[User: Shannon|Shannon]]
+* [[User:Shannon|Shannon]]
 * [[User:HeadKase|HeadKase]] will be there if the MTA lets him.
 * [[User:phil_s_stein|phil_s_stein]] Will try to be there, but can't swim - so maybe not.
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 * [[User:MikeyCakes|Mike]] lives in Queens and might drive to some of these.
 * [[User:Moare|Moare]] is going to Hofstra this fall and hopes to join in.
-* [[User:Jevanyn|Greg]] is in the city once or twice a year, and may try to join a Staturday meetup.
+* [[User:Jevanyn|Greg]] is in the city once or twice a year, and may try to join a Saturday meetup.
 * [[User:Brandon|Brandon]] technically is in the corner of Manhattan which falls in [[Newark, New Jersey| 40, -74]], but will hash in the city when the point falls there.

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