London West, United Kingdom
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Revision as of 15:05, 23 May 2008 by imported>Kira (→Saturday meet-up locations: Hee, no worries, easy to do. // And hey, as long as I'm searching with q= in the URL, we don't need the ll= or z= args as they're done automatically.)
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| Swindon | London West | London East |
| Southampton | - | - |
File:LondonWest.png
West London graticule
The graticule in London West contains the City, West End, and many western boroughs. It also extends as far as Slough and Reading to the west, Luton to the north, and Crawley to the south.
The graticule has boundaries from 52° to 51° latitude, and -1° to 0° longitude. When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 51° latitude and -0° longitude. Note the use of negative zero.
Saturday meet-up locations
- 2008-05-24 - Location: 51.1266480113970560°, -0.5475331240942810° (XKCD map)
The nearest village is Dunsfold, a mile away to the south-west; however, it seems to be a pretty small village.
