Talk:New York, New York

Transportation

Only you city folks are without cars. Pretty much everyone in the Nassau has access to a car assuming they have a license. However, because you live in NYC, you have access to brilliant public transportation. Meaning: Take the subway to Penn and then the train out to the Island if needed. And you know, ride a bike or something. Long Island isn't prohibitively big if you take trains/buses/riding a bicycle into consideration. NoOneButMe 00:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, its not a valid reason to say the algorithm is broken in any way imo. While the city has a bunch of places to explore, the point is (as i see it) for spontaneity in meeting places, not to create preordained meeting places that are grouped around a similar location every week. NoOneButMe 01:53, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree, the algorithm isn't broken (except that there is a lot of water, see below). We should take local culture into account, that's all. A lot of XKCD fans are college-age, and may not have a car anyway. -- Jevanyn 15:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

• For those of you who are financially able, might I suggest Zipcar? I have an account and it's really useful if you only need a car for a few hours or a day, and they're parked all over the city. Not trying to be a shill, or anything, but I know I'll be using it to make geohashing a wee bit easier when it drops outside of the realm of public transportation and isn't in the water. --Marco 20:05, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Water

We had an awesome time on the water today. I took my kayak for two (you know, the one that travels through time) out to today's location. It was a blast. See you next time.

P.S. I only come to meetings at locations only accessible via Google Maps (Particularly, the blue squares).

--HockeyInJune 02:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Too Much Water

Since over half of our graticule is water, I suggest a new rule for determining a meeting point:

The .5 Rule: if the latitude right of the decimal is less than .5, then add .5 to the number. --Harris 16:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a lot of ocean in this graticule, so an Alternate algorithm is justifyable. -- Jevanyn 15:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Another suggestion, which is more NYC-friendly: Rather than prepending "40" and "-73", prepend "40.7" and "73.9". This is a decicule that is mostly land: it includes the bulk of Manhattan, a good part of Queens and Brooklyn, and a smidgen of New Jersey. I'm interested in a meetup this spring/summer, so let me know if an Alternate algorithm is in effect? -- Jevanyn 19:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Tools for random points in/near the city only?

I don't own a car and I always work on Saturdays, and I'm not particularly interested in meeting other people at random (I'm a solitary person ok!!), or in seeing random spots in Long Island (no offense!!). And I'm extremely stupid and am having trouble understanding how to modify the algorithm to generate random points within an arbitrary rectangle of my choosing, so that I can play this game when I have time to kill. I wondered if that kind of generative instrument already exists and is somewhere on the internet as I type this right now. Thanks for reading.