San Francisco, California
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Today's Location: [San Francisco, CA]
The San Francisco graticule is at latitude 37, longitude -122. It completely encloses San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley down to the North part of of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, the entire peninnusla, and a lot of ocean/bay. The graticule is about 60% water, making reachable geohashes a little sparser than normal. If today's San Francisco geohash is in the water, you may find the San Jose geohash more to your liking. In addition, there is a large amount of private property in the hills of our graticule, although also a lot of public land and terrific parks/hiking, so it should be interesting hashing, when we can get there. On days when the spot is off-shore but within 1 mile, or in The Bay, Ted suggests that we try to make it, anyway (boats, wind-surfers, whatever), if it can be done, safely.
The San Jose, CA and San Francisco, CA share a mailing list for meetup planning and other discussion.
Notable Dates
- 2008-05-17 37 -122
- 2008-05-23 37 -122 -- Deep ocean. Tried San Jose, but was on private property, behind a keypad-only access gate. (Met some very nice ranchers, though :)
- 2008-05-27 37 -122 -- Southern reaches of Castle Rock State Park, just below a tough-to-reach ridge.
- 2008-05-30 37 -122 -- In someone's backyard in Berkeley. Got as close as possible without trespassing.
- 2008-06-03 37_-122 - Today's spot is right on in the middle of a hiking trail a few hundred feet from the north entrance to Briones Regional Park on Briones Rd outside Orinda. Doesn't get any easier than than. E-mail me if anyone would like to go out for a picnic or go slacklining in the park. Can carpool from Berkeley. - Avitzur 18:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)avitzur
People/Activities
- User:Zigdon - Santa Clara, will try to drive or ride to meetups if they are close enough. If the meetup falls in the sea, the San Jose graticule is often a good alternative.
- User:Avitzur - Berkeley.
- User:Pyron Beta - Sunnyvale. I've suggested using DJIA==0 so we can find a Friday with reachable coordinates.
- Ted - Santa Cruz. will bring [Once Upon A Time] when he comes. He will try to make Saturdays and, in particular, suggests the 2nd Saturday of the month for folks who plan to only attend occasionally. (Perhaps that can be "the official SF-xkcd meetup", or some such.)
- User:hellmitre - San Francisco. Doesn't have a car but if the meetup spot is in the city or near a BART station, he'll try to be there. Could it be possible to decide on a certain Saturday so we get a good number of people to show?
- User:kachunk - Palo Alto. Has car. Prefers to bike.
- User:FunkyTuba - Cupertino/Redwood City. Will probably only go to *very* convenient geohashes, e.g. the point falls within a couple of miles of home or work.
- Relsqui - Berkeley. Has transit passes, will travel, within the bounds of public transit and a full-time job that includes Saturdays.
- Mystitat - Walnut Creek. Has car sometimes, but prefers public transit.
- Darcy - Berkeley. Has a car but may often be busy. Needs to figure out if her driving GPS can be configured for off-road hashing.
- Ana - Palo Alto area. No car, but might be able to get a ride if sibling can be persuaded and we have time.
- Evawings - Somewhere in the Redwood City/San Mateo area. Likes random adventures! :]
