Rochester, New York

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Today's location: [Rochester, NY]
Alternate location: [Canandaigua-Corning, NY]

The Rochester, New York graticule is at 43 degrees north, 77 degrees west. Much of this graticule covers Lake Ontario, making the reachable geohashes very sparse.

Rochester has a very active geocaching community, with a large overlap with the XKCD fan base. Rochester is probably one of the top five geekiest cities in the US by population percentage ^{[citation needed]}, largely due to the the student populations at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as the many engineering jobs provided by industries based in Rochester.

When the day's location ends up in Lake Ontario, we may repair to a secondary location further south, in the Canandaigua-Corning, New York graticule (42, -77). Of course, one is still free to float, swim, sail, row, motorboat, jetski, fly, or take whatever other form of aqueous or aerial locomotion to the primary location in Lake Ontario, if one wishes. If the location is ashore across Lake Ontario in Canada, that counts. Life on the border is strange that way, sometimes, and you do the best you can.

If the secondary location ends up in one of the Finger Lakes, on a river, or in some other body of water, we'll just lump it. Get as close as you can, within the bounds of reason and good sense, wave, and take pictures. Semaphore or Morse may be of some use in this case, so plan accordingly.

Notable Events

Create a new page for our coordinate and date for any potential meetups. Edit that page to coordinate the coordinates.

2008-05-21 43 -77 First day after the original geohashing post. Location: Spencerport, off of Colby Rd. The geocache Day 0 Geohash for 43, -77 (GC1CGGW) has been published on Geocaching.com

2008-05-24 43 -77 First Saturday after original post. Coordinates are 43.126648°, -77.547534°, which is near the southwest corner of Elmwood and Clover in the town of Brighton, just across I-590 from Twelve Corners.

2008-05-31 43 -77 Since Rochester's graticule is in Lake Ontario, let's go to the graticule just below ours. It's convenient: Geneseo / Mount Morris! Also, could someone make sure the map coords are right, since the Main Page has one set, and the Map Lookup has another set? Thanks! danierrr

The main page has the [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2008-05-31 correct offsets] for Saturday. Here's a Google Maps Link for 2008-05-31 43 -77

which puts it south of Macedon near the end of a cul-de-sac. Joe

Local Geohashers

Alphabetized

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Lockport	Rochester, New York	Syracuse
Buffalo	Canandaigua-Corning	Ithaca