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Man, geohashing is turning out awesome.
This is poison ivy. As a child, I got many severe cases of it. Learn to recognize it. Note the three smooth-edged, occasionally-notched leaves and slightly shiny appearance.

I'm Randall Munroe, author of xkcd and creator of this project.

I live in Boston

Thoughts: I wonder what percentage of Boston graticule is covered in poison ivy. It can't be a particularly large percentage, but it occurs to me that this project would get us perfect data on the matter. A truly random sample, as long as you go to every hash ...

I have been to geohashes in two states.

I have visited 4 geohashes

Lately

I'm so sad I couldn't make it to the Tuesday geohash. It was in an area I've wanted an excuse to visit for years. Oh, well. I'm gonna try for Friday's, assuming it's reachable.

Geohashes I've visited

2008-05-31, Boston Saturday meetup

2008-05-24, Boston Saturday meetup

2008-05-23, Boston

2008-05-21, Boston

Visited during testing

2008-05-17 37 -122

Several others whose dates I actually lost, I'll dig them up later. All were before the site went up, of course.