2008-05-24

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Expedition Archives from May 2008

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See also: Category:Meetup on 2008-05-24

Coordinates

0.1266480113970560, 0.5475331240942810

It was the first Saturday after the algorithm was published, and there was an xkcd meetup at 4:00pm in regions where the coordinates were reachable.

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Expeditions and Plans

2008-05-24
São Paulo, Brazil "Juca" (Felipe Sanches), Rafael Moretti We (Juca and Moretti) went to the city by bus (we got the bus at São Paulo)...
Warwick, Australia TMBomber, Macrocephalic S28.126648° E152.547533° This is the geohash for the Brisbane(Well south e...
Adelaide South, Australia Beeawwb, Scott, co., Kyle, Justin Saturdays geohash for Adelaide chosen using the southern graticule, located...
Tumut, Australia Psud Somewhere
Hamilton, New Zealand InvaluableKiwi The point was located in the middle of a river. With my trusty kayak and pi...
Christchurch, New Zealand Phire Near the top of Mt Gray (900m)
Ciudad de México, Mexico Cid, Alegría Cid reached this Ciudad de México, México geohash on the first Saturday after the original comic wa...
Houston, Texas Bscott The Houston location is on Bunkhouse Trail, just south of Lake Bluebonnet, ...
San Antonio, Texas DragonDeMonsyne text taken from notes on graticule page DragonDeMonsyne attempted to r...
Conroe, Texas User:W0lfie The coordinates are in Spring, Texas, in the Conroe graticule on 2008-05-24. It's ri...
Austin, Texas Meat.Paste, mrusso, 2 others met at CR110 at 4pm in Austin, Texas is located on a cow pasture near Manor
Montgomery, Alabama Ashley, *her pet duck In the woods about an hour southwest of Montgomery
Phoenix (East Valley), Arizona User:Shkoo I tried. Apparently the "West Olberg Road" was not really a road. I got to...
Atlanta, Georgia Musiqua, Andy, Eric Andy programmed the GPS. The real proof that we were in the bible belt...
San Bernardino, California far call, Steuard, Delzer was on a walking path in a suburban neighborhood near Vintage Park in Ranch...
Los Angeles, California Darcy The meetup point was in Topanga State Park near the western fork of Caballe...
Greenville, South Carolina PUSkunk 34.126648°, -82.547534° Reached by user PUSkunk by motorcycle. Got there ...
San Luis Obispo, California Bigbadbyte We (Bigbadbyte + associates) did it. The story in pictures from the oth...
Charlotte, North Carolina Karl, Chase, Sean, Sarah Somewhere
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Anonymous In a forest in Halifax County
Nashville, Tennessee Anonymous in a fenced-in field near Nashville
San Jose, California Joe, Zigdon, Mark, Ted, Dan, Kate, Jill, Alex, Albert, * These coordinates were located in the San Jose, California graticule on 2008-05-24, on the shore of Coyot...
Sacramento, California Demon Eye Image:Demoneye05-24-08img1.jpg Image:DSCN2149.jpg Image:Sacgeohash052408.jp...
Santa Rosa, California Sylvia, Javier, Tian, Casey, Paul, Cameron, Adam, Kevin, Katherine, Brandon Expeditions
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Phyzome The target was in the woods off of Free Union Road. The road had guardrail...
Louisville, Kentucky Someone went 5/24/2008 - Got close - 0.2mi - but private land; took picture from road. Journal Entry + Picture...
Vincennes, Indiana Quicksilver, calt The Vincennes geohash for Saturday was located in a wheat field off of Base...
Chico, California Stephen Turner 2008-05-24
Baltimore, Maryland Brian, rejoicingapathy, Shannon were barbequing in Oden, Xiagu showed up, is unsure of what more to, * These coordinates were located in the Baltimore graticule on 2008-05-24. It appears ...
Frederick, Maryland Dan was located in a fancy sub-development of Leesburg, VA. Meetup was attente...
Cincinnati, Ohio Nick, Danny arrived, two others w These coordinates were located in the Cincinnati, Ohio graticule on 2008-05-24. It was located in th...
Indianapolis, Indiana Someone went In the middle of the golf course at Bloomington Country Club.
Fort Collins, Colorado Jeff, Doug, Ryan 40.126648°,-105.547534°Achievements earned: Jeff Michael Mario Doug Jaeger Humblik Mike...
Salt Lake City, Utah McKay Somewhere
Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania Anonymous Wal-Mart parking lot
Mansfield, Ohio Ernest, Rattail The first official Saturday meetup in the Mansfield, Ohio graticule.
Lafayette, Indiana Tim 40.126648, -86.547534 These coordinates are in the Lafayette, Indiana, graticule on 2008-05-24. Looks...
Champaign/Urbana, Illinois Brett The first official meetup was about 20 miles from Champaign-Urbana and abo...
Lincoln, Nebraska Someone went This map shows the coordinates for Lincoln, NE for the first Saturday, 2008-05-24. T...
Cleveland, Ohio Alek The coordinates were in someone's backyard/on the side of a road, but there...
Chicago, Illinois Virgletati, It might be useful, The site itself. 300 17000e Rd N, Momence, IL 60954; address conveniently converted from the...
Aurora, Illinois GLneo, William in front of a house, so we parked just up the road. It was a 60 mile dirt b...
Des Moines, Iowa vonahsen 41.126648°, -93.547534° vonahsen came close, but no GPS. Eyeballed it fro...
Boston, Massachusetts Randall, Moku, Pinecone, Brad, Spot, Nick, chess set will be there., goban will be there. Will also, various games., Brian, Boggle are going to d, Jose missed the 1709. But will, Merc will be there next week, is sorry he couldn't make 42.1266480113970560, -71.5475331240942810 These coordinates are in Hopedal...
Springfield, Massachusetts Thomcat/Unlocked Located in Blunt Park near Springfield, MA. (Visited by Evan, Brian, Andrew...
Ithaca, New York Chris Reached (sort of) by Chris and Co. Didn't have GPS, but since there was a ...
Detroit, Michigan Eric not only on land, but appears to be very reachable.
Lansing, Michigan Someone went The meetup coordinates were located south of Jackson, Michigan, near the to...
Schaumburg, Illinois Shakedown, DavidEGrayson, Bill, Katie, cousin Noah This page is about the official meetup on 2008-05-24 in the Schaumburg, IL graticule....
Cedar Rapids North, Iowa Nfomi Meeting point was approximately 5 miles north of Marion, Iowa, on the east ...
Rochester, New York Cogit0 These coordinates are located in the Rochester, New York graticule on 2008-05-24. Coordinates are 43.126...
Lockport, New York Anonymous Niagara County, someone's back lawn
Madison, Wisconsin Alric The expedition to the Madison, Wisconsin graticule on 2008-05-24 falls in Devil's Lake State Park! --Alric...
Eugene, Oregon Grron Eugene, Corvallis, Monmouth, and West Salem Oregon Graticule: 44, -123 Sa...
Potsdam, New York MissingDividends Somewhere
Portland, Oregon Wil, 7 Geohashers including South of Molalla, Oregon
Ottawa, Ontario Kevin The coordinates were remarkably convenient -- smack dab in the middle of so...
Minneapolis NW, Minnesota Abi I stopped by the geohash point at approximately 4:30 on my way back from hi...
Seattle, Washington Marcy Marcy : Today's location was in Tillicum, right off I-5 near McChord AFB. ...
Zürich, Switzerland Adi The coordinates are on the Zugerberg near Zug, Switzerland.
Bellingham, Washington Evan The actual coordinates were about .75mi offshore, but were close enough to ...
München, Germany BB I have been there. And I got the split-double-wrong achievement! # I ...
Wien, Austria Unexpected, Lumbricus Lumbricus and Unexpected tried to get as close as possible. 50m away they h...
Paris, France Ilia I (Ilia) did not realize that the algorithm took into account not only the ...
Surrey, British Columbia Ryan, Deborah, Brad These coordinates were located in the Surrey, British Columbia graticule on 2008-05-24, in a rural area in La...
Winnipeg, Manitoba Zach just north of Altona, to the East of Highway 30
London West, United Kingdom Kira, James, Kit, Oliver The first meetup in London West graticule was located a mile to the north-e...
Dresden, Germany Heiner Successfully reached location (place inside a field) in Brockwitz near Cosw...
Gent, Belgium FrederikVds This meetup took place in the Ghent, Belgium graticule on May 24th 2008. Th...
Birmingham, United Kingdom Krypto 52.126648°, -1.547534° This is the geohash for the Birmingham, United Kingdom graticule on 2008-05-24. It's...
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Anonymous In the middle of someone's farm.
Cambridge, United Kingdom Youpi On the first Saturday of the project, the meetup point was located on the v...
Berlin, Germany GeorgDerReisende/sandbox I tried to get there, but took the wrong path in the forest. I was pretty c...
Amsterdam, Netherlands Henk, Pijll, Two others The first meetup in Noord West Nederland was located near Hazerswoude. Four people and a larger...
Enschede, Netherlands M.qrius People that got there: * M.qrius * Evo-- * Michael The accessroad was cl...
Sheffield, United Kingdom single-figures On 2008-05-24, in the Sheffield (53,-1) graticule, attendance was in single-figures, ...
Edmonton, Alberta Thomcat/Unlocked Somewhere
Groningen, Netherlands MHD, Hugo The first saturday North East Netherlands location was in Eelde, near the A...
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom Ajtag Near Studley Roger
Carlisle, United Kingdom Nick Taylor, Bramp, Chronos Empire, Nic, C, K On 24th May 2008, the first Saturday meeting since the algorithm was publis...
Växjö, Sweden Sulo Sulo and RandomPerson trekking the woods of Skane (southern Sweden): We did...
Helsinki, Finland Jon Reached by Kliment. Pics at [[4]]. I thoroughly enjoyed the image of the ants! ...



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