Difference between revisions of "Danville, Illinois"

Revision as of 16:49, 15 January 2022

2013-01-13 40 -87: StatMan22 reached a field just Southwest of Lafayette in a cold rain.
2009-04-18 40 -87: Brett, Alejandro, and Lucas reached an interesting point near a wooded ravine and found an amazing quarry on the way home.
2009-04-04 40 -87: Excursion by Nathan, Jianfeng, and Jeff (his first ever) had a point lying in the middle of a county road. The trio earned the Speed Racer Achievement.
2009-03-27 40 -87: Solo geohasher excursion by Nathan. His second hash point of the afternoon. Coordinates fell in the middle of a harvested corn field southwest of Potomac, IL.
2008-07-19 40 -87: About halfway between Danville and Champaign/Urbana, Illinois

While Brett was the first (apparently) to attempt a geohash in this graticule, Nathan was the first to succeed, which earns him the Virgin Graticule Achievement.

On 2009-04-04, the coordinates fell in the middle of a county road which allowed Nathan, Jianfeng, and Jeff to claim the Speed Racer Achievement:

Nathan, Jianfeng, and Jeff earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (40, -87) geohash on 2009-04-04 at 57 mph.

Brett has attempted a geohash here, although he is not from this graticule.
Nathan has completed a geohash here, although he is not from this graticule.
Jianfeng has completed a geohash here, although he is not from this graticule.
Jeff has completed a geohash here, although he is not from this graticule.

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-The {{PAGENAME}} [[graticule]] is at [http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=40&long=-87 latitude 40, longitude -87].
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 == Coordinates ==

Aurora	Chicago	South Bend, Indiana
Champaign/Urbana	Danville	Lafayette, Indiana
Decatur	Terre Haute, Indiana	Indianapolis, Indiana
Today's location: geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox