Townsville, Australia
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| Sunday 2024-12-22 | -19.1625326, 146.2300457 |
| Monday 2024-12-23 | -19.4220962, 146.9876460 |
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Townsville
The Townsville graticule is a pretty good one. It neatly includes Magnetic Island, Crystal Creek and Paluma in the north (but not as far as Paluma Dam), Alligator Creek in the east, and almost reaches Charters Towers in the west. Most of the middle will be pretty hard to get to by road but there is some potential.
Graticule Links
Local Geohashers
Simon made this page. He doesn't own a GPS and isn't all that serious about actually Geohashing for real. But he might just check the coordinates once in a while and... maybe... Anyone else out there?
Matty K created the following abomination: http://geohashing.kerwin.net.au/ It reduces the Townsville graticule by another order of magnitude (0.125°×0.125° — approx. 10km×10km). Unfortunately he can't be bothered making it suck less. However, if people are interested in using either this or the official algorithm to meet up randomly on Saturdays, he's willing. He also made the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23713782409
Geohashes
In reverse-chronological order:
- 2008-10-04 -19 146 ← failed
- 2008-09-20 -19 146 ← out near Woodstock.
(See: Category:Meetup in -19 146)
Current Meetup Location
- Sat, 18-Oct-2008. Out in the rainforest near Crystal Creek. The point itself is about 2km due south of the end of Ponderosa Rd, mostly along some sort of creek bed. Google's satellite view is too low-resolution in that area. If the terrain view is to be believed, the terrain itself is not too rugged; just the dense jungle in that area.
- Matty: Again, if I didn't have to consider my family, and if I had someone to go with me, I'd give it a go.
- Alternatives
- Charters Towers has a potential point. If the dirt roads on Google maps are to believed, one can drive to within about 100m of the spot, and the terrain looks pretty open out there.
- Matty: if I had a copilot (someone with whom to share fuel costs) I'd totally go, and pop the Towers' graticule cherry as well. Any volunteers?
Recent Unattended Saturday Locations
These are only the most potentially accessible Saturday meetup locations to which no one went.
- Sat, 24-May-2008. Right near the beach 10 minutes north of Saunders Beach. There's a dirt road you can see on the satellite view. Would have been a great spot!
- Sat, 28-Jun-2008. Near an apparent crater and some sort of industrial area (a quarry?) near Dotswood... wherever that is.
- Sat, 12-Jul-2008. Near Dotswood again. There's some sort of dirt road on the satellite view.
- Sat, 16-Aug-2008. Someone's front yard at Alice River. Definitely doable.
- Sat, 27-Sep-2008. Out near the Towers, just north of the river. There's a dirt track from the highway, past a homestead, to the point (200m off), so maybe doable. (*sigh* —Matty)
Links for upcoming Saturdays
Please Note: until the time comes, these links will be inaccurate as they depend on data that isn't known yet. If you can accurately predict the stock market ahead of time, please let us know.
