Talk:San Jose, California

Visitor to the Graticule

Thomcat will be near the west edge of this Graticule August 20th through 23rd (staying just north of Mariott California). I was here last year as well and had no luck from the geohashing gods. While my days are busy, my evenings are somewhat available. Care to meet up? Will watch this space... --Thomcat 18:52, 6 August 2012 (EDT)

Anniepoo Definitely - my time's pretty flexible. My direct email is aogborn@uh.edu Anniepoo 19:50, 6 August 2012 (EDT)

Graticule Name Discussion

I don't think East Bay is a good name for this graticule. Most of what I consider to be the East Bay (Oakland, Hayward, Union City, half of Fremont) are in the San Francisco graticule. This graticule does cover the Contra Costa Valley, but that's not as East Bay as Oakland.

Considering this graticule covers more than half of the South Bay, including San Jose (largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, 3rd largest in the state, 10th largest in the country), I think a better name would be the San Jose graticule. -- Ebrowne (talk) 20:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Anonymous Edits

Not sure what's meant by this last anonymous edit: "Authorities have been alerted, and will arrest anyone caught on the property." considering the date 05-26 is in the past and I'm not aware that anyone tried to reach those coordinates on Monday. Maybe someone has misinterpreted the rules of this whole thing and thinks we're going to revisit past coordinates... well we could of course, but it's not likely.

I'm removing this, I think the general guideline of "no trespassing on private property" will do just fine, without retroactively threatening to arrest people.

Expedition pages

Suggestion: our expedition pages should all have a link back to the SJ page (this one.) I can't count the number of times I've been at SJ, clicked an expedition, then wanted to return. Yeah, yeah, "back button." Whatever!

I'll go through & put it on the existing pages in the next day or two. Just wanted to suggest it for the future. While I'm thinking about it, I wonder if there's a graticule-index page, where you can look up and find out where, say, 33, -116 is. Ted 07:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• I don't know if this meets your criteria, but the {{meetup graticule}} template has the graticule's primary page linked under the "Graticule lat lon's page" link. It looks like it might be nameable, too, if the graticule_name parameter is supplied. But something a bit more obvious might not be a bad idea :-) As for looking up where a random graticule is, I'm pretty sure all the named graticules already have redirects if you search for (eg) 33 -116, but the ungeohashed ones still won't be searchable that way :-/ --Tapin 13:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah! Yes, graticule_name is exactly what I was suggesting. I'd clicked the lat/long link and gotten the bigger map, but not noticed the nearly-identically-named link below. So my suggestion is:

Proposal: On our expedition pages, we should include

  |graticule_name=San Jose, California

In the {{meetup graticule}} template. I will go add that to existing ones, now. Ted 14:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)