Los Angeles, California
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Revision as of 23:03, 11 February 2014 by imported>Bravissimo594 (Added section and link to Crox's poster tool.)
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The Los Angeles, California graticule is at latitude 34, longitude -118. While not including the entire city of Los Angeles, this graticule includes downtown LA and much of the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. The Long Beach graticule, which otherwise mostly contains ocean, includes the portion of the city of Los Angeles which is south of the 10 freeway.
Contents
Current meetup information and plans
Map of today's location.
- 2014-02-11: A residential driveway in Pasadena.
Past meetups
2008
- 2008-05-24: First LA geohashing meetup! Definitely a success.
- 2008-05-31: under the 10 freeway
- 2008-06-07: near Vincent Hill Station, Palmdale
- 2008-06-08: near Union Station
- 2008-06-14: Edwards AFB
- 2008-06-21: near Tehachapi
- 2008-06-28: 10 miles east of Lancaster
- 2008-07-04: just off the 126
- 2008-07-26: Angeles National Forest
- 2008-08-09: Temple City
- 2008-08-30: Hollywood Hills
- 2008-10-06: Agoura Hills
2009
- 2009-03-28: Reseda
- 2009-08-29: Los Padres Forest, near Gorman
- 2009-08-30: Larchmont Village, city of Los Angeles
- 2009-10-03: The corner of Fairfax and Beverly
2010
- 2010-03-12: Geohash was on the grounds of the Kranz Intermediate School in El Monte.
2011
- None recorded.
2012
- 2012-03-26: Arcadia
- 2012-04-28: A riverbed near Acton.
- 2012-05-15: A parking lot at 1325 Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.
- 2012-06-20: On the bike path next to the LA River as it passes by Griffith Park & the 134
2013
- 2013-07-07: Half-mile due south of Fry's in Canoga Park (Didn't happen??)
- 2013-07-20: About a half-mile north of Garvanza Park.
- 2013-12-18: Rancho Avenue, along the north edge of the Bette Davis Picnic Area in Griffith Park.
- 2013-12-31: In the driveway of a duplex residence in Rosemead.
2014
- 2014-01-04: About 50 feet east of Capistrano on Miranda in Hidden Hills. Please behave - neighbors very angry!!
- 2014-01-20: In the dry South Fork River, near Railroad Ave., in Santa Clarita.
- 2014-02-02 - Mojave desert, northeast of Lancaster.
Life-threatening
- 6/12/09: In the slow lane of the 5 Southbound in Burbank, just before it hits the Ventura freeway. Bring your road flares!
- 5/5/13: There has to be a whole new achievement just for this day.
Tools
If you want to make a poster to leave at the spot of your expedition, go to the following URL to generate a PDF with map, explanation, QR code, and more:
http://geo.crox.net/poster/[date]_[lat]_[lon]
e.g., for today's hash in 34, -118, go to http://geo.crox.net/poster/2024-11-29_34_-118. Find more information at User:Crox/Poster.
Achievements
Facebook Group
There is now a Facebook Group.
