Newark, New Jersey
| Scranton, PA | Newburgh, NY | Danbury, CT |
| Allentown, PA | Newark | New York City |
| Philadelphia, PA | Atlantic City | 39,-73 |
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| “ | A rum keg tapped at both ends.
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—Benjamin Franklin
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| “ | The Tollbooth State
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—George Carlin
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| “ | Only the Strong Survive
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—Popular New Jersey T-shirt
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The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This may be the most populous graticule in the United States, with a population in the neighborhood of 7 million people. It includes almost the entire northern half of New Jersey, the most densely populated state (Census), as well as Staten Island, western sections of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York, and a part of Pennsylvania northeast of Philadelphia. In addition, other than Raritan Bay, there are no large sections of water.
Thanks to Meteorswarm, we have a Facebook group for the "North Jersey" graticule. Meet-ups can be coordinated here or there.
This page is maintained by I am the decider maintainer. Automatic updates are not desired.
Contents
Suggested Meetup Locations
Interesting reachable locations will be posted the same day as they come up. The 80%-90% rate of private property discourages me from updating more often.
Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through activegeohasher.com.
Meetups will typically be on Saturday afternoon, at a time to be determined to maximize turnout. The location will be the most interesting and/or accessible of the week; typically open to discussion.
6 October 2010
Coordinates: 40.7339890, -74.2196988
Time to put the Speed Racer merit badge printer into overdrive. Wednesday's geohash is on Tremont Terrace, a few feet from Eastern Parkway and shouting distance from the wikipedia:Garden State Parkway, a few blocks north from Exit 143. Anybody with a photo of the Exit 143 or 144 sign for the parkway, northbound, and the speedometer, qualifies for the Speed Racer achievement.
7 October 2010
Coordinates: 40.5517399, -74.6501858
In a grassy field along River Road in Raritan, Somerset County.
- Jevanyn: I'll try for this by bike after work today. It's too close not to go for it.
Retrohash
The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is reachable, in Mill Brook, Morris County. If you make an attempt, tell us about it here!
Cities in this Graticule
| New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania |
| Newark | Staten Island | Philadelphia* |
| Jersey City | Lower Manhattan | New Hope |
| New Brunswick | Parts of Brooklyn | Levittown |
| Trenton | Langhorne |
* - The Torresdale area, in the northern reaches of Philadelphia, is partially within Newark, NJ graticule.
Local Geohashers
- Madalis
- bjimba
- krip
- trntr
- TorsionalMetric
- Direwulf
- Jevanyn
- LangleyLGLF (When @Rutgers)
- Esteban
- Science Works!
- sve
- Zubenelgenubi
- Mike
- darko
- jimpoz
- RminusQ
- Brandon 20px and his father
- GISninja
- BlastOButter42, but probably only if it's near the city and New York's isn't closer
- AlexF
- Knitting Duck
- Flashbullzeye
- Kyukket
- dieKatze88
Attempted geohashes
- Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74
- Thursday, 7 October: Jevanyn got to within line of sight, but was not expecting so many obstacles.
- Tuesday, 17 August: Jevanyn is back in action, this time with a ten-mile cycling trek to Edison.
- Thursday, 5 August: Twain twacks! (Update: They're power lines. Ewectwon Twacks?)
- Wednesday, 4 August: 'Twas Kyukket, 'twas dark.
- Sunday, 25 July: Kyukket reached this one, too.
- Saturday, 24 July: Kyukket was there ... I think.
- Wednesday, 21 July: The geohash is five miles from Jevanyn's office, behind a heavily guarded daycare center. Can he make it to the geohash? And back out, alive?
- Thursday, 8 July: Kyukket got picture of the house where the geohash landed.
- Monday, 7 June: Jevanyn's dad went to Thursday's geohash, just not on Thursday :-)
- Saturday, 5 June: Mowdownjoe heads for the geohash near the middle school in Aberdeen.
- Monday, 24 May: Kyukket stopped by in Clark on his way to Clifton. (How is that not out-of-the-way?)
- Friday, 21 May: Jack Bauer was here! (Sort of)
- Miercoles, 5 Mayo: Cinco de Mayo bicicleta geohash!
- Thursday, April 1: April Fools' Day Holy/Tron geohash. That was the plan, anyway...
- Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.
- Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.
- Monday, March 8: I was just here, too!
- Thursday, March 4: Jevanyn has driven past the house a dozen times. But can I prove it?
- Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.
- Sunday, February 28: An easy first geohash for dieKatze88 near Drew University.
- Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.
- Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meet-up at Woodbridge Mall.
- Monday, February 1: A chilly evening geohash, but only two towns from home for Jevanyn.
- Saturday, January 23: Saturday's geohash was a walk in the park, literally!
- Tuesday, January 5: Jevanyn tried for a birthday geohash with his new GPS, but the location was not reachable.
Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008 and 2009.
Links
[Bing Maps] with Bird's Eye view, better idea of scale and finding paths through complicated terrain.
[Zillow] real estate valuation site, to find out if it's private property / a rough neighborhood / both.
[NJ Transit] for public transportation geohashes
And of course [Wikipedia] to find out which township/borough/county a geohash is in :-)
Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.
- Google Maps now has a bike trail layer, which is a good start.
In the Media
On April 26, 2010, during the Casey & Rossi call-in show, a discussion about geocaching prompted a Rutgers student(?) to call in and mention geohashing. They of course mocked us as geeks, but we'll show them! :-)
