San Jose, California

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Today's Location: [San Jose, CA]

The San Jose graticule is at latitude 37 N, longitude 121 W. It covers much of the San Jose area, the Contra Costa Valley (including Pleasanton and Livermore), and part of the San Joaquin Valley (including Stockton, Tracy, and the western half of Modesto). This graticule makes for a good fallback adventure when the San Francisco graticule's geohash is in the water, as often happens.

The San Jose, CA and San Francisco, CA share a mailing list for meetup planning and other discussion.

Notable Dates

Historic map of Geohash spots for 37 -121 (San Jose.)

2008-05-21 Early SJ hashers almost got to the spot...

2008-05-24 North end of Coyote Lake County Park, near Gilroy/San Martin, just off of 101.

2008-05-25 East of Stockton, looks like the middle of a field.

2008-05-26 East of Livermore, just shy of 2000' elevation. A mile from Patterson Pass Road, in the middle of private property near a wind farm. This location is on the Vieira Ranch, which is all private property off of Patterson Pass Road. Please do not trespass.

2008-05-31 (An XKCD meetup day) Just off of Hwy 152, between Gilroy & San Luis reservoir. Looks to possibly be a few feet from a (dirt (fire? ranch?)) road. Please do not trespass.

2008-06-01 Heh. Right off the Coleman St (SJC) offramp. (37.349107934119 -121.91623890427) Easy access by foot, but you should probably park on nearby Spring St. NOTE: Do not illegally cross the freeway ;)

2008-06-04 In the middle of Almaden Quicksilver Park, which covers what used to be a mine, so perhaps there's a possibility for an Undergound Geohash

2008-06-05 Another easy one, logistically -- 300' off the Dinosaur Point Road, near San Luis reservoir. Given the access road, this MAY be a chance to earn the Raptor Geohash achievement.

2008-06-07 (XKCD) Another easy one, logistically. Looks to be in the middle of a farm-field in Patterson (SE of Tracy.) I would expect that a polite visit to the farmer's house would yield little in the way of opposition (please do not trespass!)

2008-06-08 In a private ranch south of Hwy 152, not all that far from last Saturday. The entire area is marked "No Trespassing" and invokes a citizen's watch; please do not trespass.

2008-06-14 (XKCD) In a private field East of Manteca, near a cattle farm, so it's likely to be smelly. Last Saturday, we had no opposition to us sitting in the fields, and I'd expect the same this Saturday.

2008-06-15 Right along the shoulder of a road in the Milpitas foothills. Whether this road is "real" or not seems to be a function of which Google Maps view one subscribes to. Clearly, some experimental derivation is in order....

2008-06-21 (XKCD) In a field near Suisuin Bay. Looks like a nice spot, but I suggest doing the SF geohash, which is in a public park in Marin.

2008-06-25 Is right off of Stanley Blvd in Livermore, across from Shadow Cliffs park, where we used to play in the quarry (and go to make-out at night ;) when I was in high school. Sadly, it appears JUST inside the gravel-works on the other side of the street. Getting within 250' is piece-of-cake (and it'd be fun to visit Shadow-Cliffs again, although I'm unlikely to make it today), but I'm not sure if the actual spot is accessible to public. Could always ask...! User:Anthony drove past it on his way home this evening, but didn't have time to find a good place to park along Stanley Boulevard, or a good way to take pictures of the site and his GPS while whizzing by at 50+ mph.

2008-07-01 On the border between Sveadal (private property, Please Do Not Trespass) and Uvas Canyon County Park, just below Manzanita Point in the southern reaches of the County Park.

2008-07-02 Inside the living room of 2244 Gunar Drive in the Cambrian Park area of San Jose. Reached by four people.

2008-07-10 Landed between two homes on Newhall Street, not far from Santa Clara University. Two people visited.

2008-07-19 (XKCD) An official XKCD meetup day with pretty easy access, assuming we can polite-talk the owner into it.

People

You alphabetized the list, please, when you add yourself, keep it alphabetized.

adambb - located in Santa Clara

bblanco - located in Sunnyvale

Bookrat - located in Mountain View

Buxley - located in Santa Clara

dimo414 - located in Los Gatos

ebrowne - located in San Jose

elness - located in Manteca. Live in this graticule, but work in Modesto, just inside the Merced, California graticule.

Foobert - located in San Jose

FunkyTuba - Cupertino/Redwood City. Will probably only go to *very* convenient geohashes, e.g. the point falls within a couple of miles of home or work.

Jakobo - located in San Jose

Jarom - located in Livermore

Jason - located in Pleasanton

JOATMON - located in San Jose

KChasm - located in San Jose. Will only go to geohashes that are very, very, very convenient.

Korova - located in San Jose

Nooks - located in Mountain View

Shrugged - located in San Ramon

Tapin - located in San Jose

You - located on the border of San Jose and Campbell

Youhas - located in Santa Clara

Zigdon - located in Santa Clara

Adoptees

Anthony - lives in Alameda in San Francisco quad, but work in Livermore, and will sometimes try hashes here

Ted - Located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Laurel off of Hwy 17. Technically lives in San Jose graticule, but more closely associates with Santa Cruz. However, since Cruz is 99.44% water, expect to see him at Jose hash-spots.

Achievements

Tapin, Ted, FunkyTuba, Zigdon, and Relsqui earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (37, -121) geohash on 2008-06-01.

Jason, and Shrugged earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (37, -121) geohash on 2008-06-07.

Ted, Jason, and Shrugged earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (37, -121) geohash on 2008-06-07.

Buxley earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (37, -121) geohash on 2008-07-02.

Buxley earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement