Champaign/Urbana, Illinois

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The 40,-88 graticule contains all of Champaign-Urbana, part of Bloomington and Normal, and several other smaller towns in Illinois.

Official Meetup

In accordance with the Main Page, the official meetup of the 40,-88 graticule will be held every Saturday at 4pm Central time.

• 2008-05-24: The first official meetup appears to be in a field near the intersection of N 1000 E Rd. and Cord 2350 Rd. N in Piatt County about 20 miles from Champaign-Urbana and about 50 miles from Bloomington-Normal.
  • Success! Kyle, Kim, Matt, and Brett met by the road adjoining the field and hiked through corn seedlings do the geohashing point.
    

    From left to right: Kyle, Kim, Matt, and Brett

Graticule History

On Friday, October 12th, 2007, at 7:45pm, XKCD author Randall Munroe gave a talk at 40.1139,-88.2211 for the ACM Reflections Projections Conference at the University of Illinois (citation). The talk was about "his experiences drawing xkcd and playing with kites." A video of this talk is available online.

External Links

• Official Geohashing Coordinate Calculator - compute today's geohashed coordinates (available only after 10:30am Central).
• Official Atom feed for 40,-88