2008-05-24
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Expedition Archives from May 2008
Friday 23 May 2008 | Saturday 24 May 2008 | Sunday 25 May 2008
See also: Category:Meetup on 2008-05-24
Coordinates
0.1266480113970560, 0.5475331240942810
It was the first Saturday after the algorithm was published, and there was an xkcd meetup at 4:00pm in regions where the coordinates were reachable.
Expeditions
- Adelaide, Australia Using South Graticule Looks Best Satellite looks promising if land is private land across road looks good.
- Anchorage, Alaska Near Tanaina Peak in the Chugach State Park. The first meet up might not be heavily attended...
- Atlanta, Georgia -- In what looks like a field off of an access road near 85 south. Picnic time!
- Aurora, Illinois - Side of a road, no one was there. Took pictures.
- Austin, Texas, United States 30.1266480113970560,-97.5475331240942810 - Looks private, but perhaps accessible.
- Baltimore, Maryland -- Coordinates are at a house on 229th st in Pasadena MD.
- Berlin, Germany Close to Erkner, reachable with public transport, on a field. Nice lakes around, worth a trip!
- Birmingham East, United Kingdom -- Private field by a main road. Should be able to get close enough for a photo.
- Boston, Massachusetts -- Coordinates are in Hopedale. The exact coordinates are in someone's house, so obviously they will not be reached within a foot, but they can expect some odd passers-by on their road.
- Brisbane, Australia(South West Graticule) -- Accessible. At the foot of Mount Moon in Moogerah Peaks National Park. 2 People visted at the designated meet up time.
- Carlisle, United Kingdom -- Several users reached a field of cows near Low Bentham, North Yorkshire.
- Champaign/Urbana, Illinois -- The first official meetup appears to be in a field near the intersection of N 1000 E Rd. and Cord 2350 Rd. N in Piatt County about 20 miles from Champaign-Urbana and about 50 miles from Bloomington-Normal.
- Charlotte, North Carolina -- 35.126648°, -80.547534°
- Chicago, Illinois -- In a field near a...something (satellite imaging is hazy) south of Woodland, IL, near the corner of E Baseline and N 1700 Rd -- near the Illinois-Indiana state line. Probably accessible, but distant -- Chicago residents may wish to use the Schaumburg graticule for Saturday's meet-up instead. (The North Shore graticule's coordinates, while technically closer, are underwater.)
- Chico, California — Actually not near Chico, but Yuba City. Looks reachable, or near enough. Convenient from Sacramento and even more so from the geocaching mega-event in Wheatland, CA.
- Cincinnati, Ohio -- Right outside of Cincinnati, seems to be a business' parking lot of some kind. Accessible.
- Cleveland, Ohio -- Perfectly located in a large park with soccer fields and a parking lot. Bringing chess.
- Conroe, Texas - Accessible. In front of somebody's house.
- College Station, Texas - Accessible. In a pasture west of Brenham, south of Burton. However you will most likely be trespassing and walking right by someones house.
- Denver, Colorado NW - 40.126648°,-105.547534° Middle of forest in Roosevelt National Forest on the Coney Flats four-wheel-drive road (NFSR 507), 1.5 miles from the gate at Beaver Reservoir.
- Des Moines, Iowa - In a field
- Detroit, Michigan - On a road on private property
- Dresden, Germany -- A field by Brockwitz, near Coswig. Reachable.
- Eugene, Corvallis, Monmouth, and West Salem, Oregon, US -- Bigfoot sighting.
- Graz, Austria Near Strallegg, eastern part of styria: 47.400246°, 15.722771°
- Grenoble, France -- Accessible. In the forest in the Vercors Mountains. Went hiking in the area recently :) About 45mins by car from Grenoble. (45.126648°, 5.547533°) [1].
- Groningen Drenthe, North-East of the Netherlands: 53.1266480113970560, 6.5475331240942810
- Indianapolis, Indiana/Bloomington, Indiana -- Bloomington Country club in the golf course... may be pricey/imposible
- Inland Empire, California -- Accessible. Near Vintage Park in Rancho Cucamonga.
- Lafayette, Indiana -- On W IN 47, just northwest of Lebanon.
- Kyiv, Ukraine - coordinates are inside forest, about 700m far from nearest road.
- Lansing, Michigan - in the woods, not far off a road, south of Horton, MI.
- Leesburg, Virginia (also most of Jefferson & Berkeley Counties in West Virginia) -- a townhouse on the north side of Leesburg, near the corner of Clark Ct. NE and Fieldstone Dr. NE: [2]
- London West, United Kingdom -- In some woods off the A281 near Cranleigh in Surrey. Looks like there's a path going right to it! 51.1266480113970560,-0.5475331240942810
- Los Angeles, California -- Actually in West LA proper, and not too far from 'Dirt' Mulholland in Topanga State Park. Note that in the park, 'Dirt' Mulholland is a fire road and will probably be closed to vehicles. One should be able to hike/bike in from the park boundary, either on the Reseda Blvd trailhead in Tarzana or perhaps from Mulholland Dr. There is a Nike missile silo nearby. Google Maps seems to exist in two different realities as to the geography of the area; see image for details.
- Madison, Wisconsin -- The expedition to the Madison, Wisconsin geohash on 2008-05-24 falls in about 10 miles Northwest of Downtown, in the middle of a field. Definitely doable.
- Mansfield, Ohio -- crap-smack in the middle of nowhere just off a country road. Perfect spot for a meet-up.
- Montgomery, Alabama -- Middle of nowhere, a heavily wooded area next to a stream. It sounds nice enough, let's just hope we don't get chased off by a shotgun. Bring your umbrellas, it looks like rain!
- Munich, Germany -- conveniently located in the middle of the City. Meet-up will happen.
- Nashville, Tennessee -- In a field at the corner of Granny Wright Ln and (a piece of) Stewart's Ferry Pike. Probably private land.
- Newark, New Jersey -- Out in the woods/pine barrens, looks doable: 40.126648°, -74.547534° Also near the northeast border of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania graticule.
- Newport News, Virginia -- Denbigh High School, on the roof of one of the buildings but you can get close: 37.126648°, -76.547534°
- Palm Beach, Florida -- I'm a recent transplant to the area. Should I worry that today's location is a mile or so south of Alligator Alley? 26.126648°, -80.547534°
- Phoenix, Arizona -- The west valley location is on top of a mountain, so it doesn't look particularly accessible. The east valley location is in Magma, about halfway between Phoenix and Florence a copule hundred feet off the road. Should be accessible.
- Portland, Oregon -- Molalla somewhere, it has been suggested a better meetup would be Monday's coordinates in Vancouver.
- Potsdam, New York -- Bog River Picnic Area, Tupper Lake, New York.
- Rochester, New York -- By the corner of Clover Street and Elmwood Avenue.
- St. Louis, Missouri - Apparently just outside someone's backyard, inside a forest, in De Soto, MO.
- Salt Lake City Utah A good hit for a mostly mountainous graticule. Only 1700ft off the road!
- San Jose, California -- Just outside of Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch Park, accessible just off 101 near Gilroy/San Martin. Possibly in SCCOSA lands, and about a 400-foot climb up from the lake, but should be able to get close.
- São Paulo, Brazil -- Possibly accessible. Looks like a point near downtown of the city of Atibaia.
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - south at College and Highway 5, down ridge road 3045, just south of second farm on East side, middle of that field. Watch out for John Deeres as farmer maybe seeding!!
- Schaumburg, Illinois -- Accessible. Middle of some farm land north west of Route 20 and 72 intersections. Met on the north end of the point along Melms Road. 42.126648°, -88.547534° Read the report here: 2008-05-24 42 -88
- Seattle, Washington - Definitely accessible, public park nearby. Planning to meet at Harry Todd Park. Next to the pier looks like a reasonable place to meet.
- Sheffield, United Kingdom -- Amongst trees near some greenhouses in the hills above Matlock Bath. Successfully reached.
- Springfield, Massachusetts - Actually very convenient. Just east of the tennis courts at Blunt Park in Springfield.
- Tucson, Arizona - In Saguaro National Park-East, 2.5 miles away from nearest road access. [3]
- Vancouver, British Columbia - in the water. However...
- Surrey, British Columbia - coordinates just off the Trans-Canada in Langley. It looks to be right at the boundary between somebody's rear lawn and farmland. The house's address is somewhere from 24380-24399 68 Ave, Langley, BC. Probably just barely beyond the reach of transit.
- Victoria, British Columbia - coordinates are on American soil but probably accessible, not very far from Port Angeles ferry terminal.
- Winnipeg, Manitoba - coordinates are near the egde of a field just off a highway, just north of a small town (Altona).
- Yucca Valley, California - Accessible. Located on the side of a ridge near a wash running north from 29 Palms Highway. Roads extend part way up the wash, the rest of the distance should be an easy hike, bring water.
- Zürich, Switzerland - Accessible. Located in a forest on the Zugerberg, near Zug, Switzerland.
Photo Gallery
- Multi-group meetups with pictures (so far)
Expeditions and Plans
| 2008-05-24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo, Brazil | "Juca" (Felipe Sanches), Rafael Moretti | We (Juca and Moretti) went to the city by bus (we got the bus at São Paulo)... |
| Warwick, Australia | TMBomber, Macrocephalic | S28.126648° E152.547533° This is the geohash for the Brisbane(Well south e... |
| Adelaide South, Australia | Beeawwb, Scott, co., Kyle, Justin | Saturdays geohash for Adelaide chosen using the southern graticule, located... |
| Tumut, Australia | Psud | Somewhere |
| Hamilton, New Zealand | InvaluableKiwi | The point was located in the middle of a river. With my trusty kayak and pi... |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | Phire | Near the top of Mt Gray (900m) |
| Ciudad de México, Mexico | Cid, Alegría | Cid reached this Ciudad de México, México geohash on the first Saturday after the original comic wa... |
| Houston, Texas | Bscott | The Houston location is on Bunkhouse Trail, just south of Lake Bluebonnet, ... |
| San Antonio, Texas | DragonDeMonsyne | text taken from notes on graticule page DragonDeMonsyne attempted to r... |
| Conroe, Texas | User:W0lfie | The coordinates are in Spring, Texas, in the Conroe graticule on 2008-05-24. It's ri... |
| Austin, Texas | Meat.Paste, mrusso, 2 others met at CR110 at 4pm | in Austin, Texas is located on a cow pasture near Manor |
| Montgomery, Alabama | Ashley, *her pet duck | In the woods about an hour southwest of Montgomery |
| Phoenix (East Valley), Arizona | User:Shkoo | I tried. Apparently the "West Olberg Road" was not really a road. I got to... |
| Atlanta, Georgia | Musiqua, Andy, Eric | Andy programmed the GPS. The real proof that we were in the bible belt... |
| San Bernardino, California | far call, Steuard, Delzer | was on a walking path in a suburban neighborhood near Vintage Park in Ranch... |
| Los Angeles, California | Darcy | The meetup point was in Topanga State Park near the western fork of Caballe... |
| Greenville, South Carolina | PUSkunk | 34.126648°, -82.547534° Reached by user PUSkunk by motorcycle. Got there ... |
| San Luis Obispo, California | Bigbadbyte | We (Bigbadbyte + associates) did it. The story in pictures from the oth... |
| Charlotte, North Carolina | Karl, Chase, Sean, Sarah | Somewhere |
| Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina | Anonymous | In a forest in Halifax County |
| Nashville, Tennessee | Anonymous | in a fenced-in field near Nashville |
| San Jose, California | Joe, Zigdon, Mark, Ted, Dan, Kate, Jill, Alex, Albert, * | These coordinates were located in the San Jose, California graticule on 2008-05-24, on the shore of Coyot... |
| Sacramento, California | Demon Eye | Image:Demoneye05-24-08img1.jpg Image:DSCN2149.jpg Image:Sacgeohash052408.jp... |
| Santa Rosa, California | Sylvia, Javier, Tian, Casey, Paul, Cameron, Adam, Kevin, Katherine, Brandon | Expeditions |
| Shenandoah Valley, Virginia | Phyzome | The target was in the woods off of Free Union Road. The road had guardrail... |
| Louisville, Kentucky | Someone went | 5/24/2008 - Got close - 0.2mi - but private land; took picture from road. Journal Entry + Picture... |
| Vincennes, Indiana | Quicksilver, calt | The Vincennes geohash for Saturday was located in a wheat field off of Base... |
| Chico, California | Stephen Turner | 2008-05-24 |
| Baltimore, Maryland | Brian, rejoicingapathy, Shannon were barbequing in Oden, Xiagu showed up, is unsure of what more to, * | These coordinates were located in the Baltimore graticule on 2008-05-24. It appears ... |
| Frederick, Maryland | Dan | was located in a fancy sub-development of Leesburg, VA. Meetup was attente... |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | Nick, Danny arrived, two others w | These coordinates were located in the Cincinnati, Ohio graticule on 2008-05-24. It was located in th... |
| Indianapolis, Indiana | Someone went | In the middle of the golf course at Bloomington Country Club. |
| Fort Collins, Colorado | Jeff, Doug, Ryan | 40.126648°,-105.547534°Achievements earned: Jeff Michael Mario Doug Jaeger Humblik Mike... |
| Salt Lake City, Utah | McKay | Somewhere |
| Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania | Anonymous | Wal-Mart parking lot |
| Mansfield, Ohio | Ernest, Rattail | The first official Saturday meetup in the Mansfield, Ohio graticule. |
| Lafayette, Indiana | Tim | 40.126648, -86.547534 These coordinates are in the Lafayette, Indiana, graticule on 2008-05-24. Looks... |
| Champaign/Urbana, Illinois | Brett | The first official meetup was about 20 miles from Champaign-Urbana and abo... |
| Lincoln, Nebraska | Someone went | This map shows the coordinates for Lincoln, NE for the first Saturday, 2008-05-24. T... |
| Cleveland, Ohio | Alek | The coordinates were in someone's backyard/on the side of a road, but there... |
| Chicago, Illinois | Virgletati, It might be useful, The site itself. | 300 17000e Rd N, Momence, IL 60954; address conveniently converted from the... |
| Aurora, Illinois | GLneo, William | in front of a house, so we parked just up the road. It was a 60 mile dirt b... |
| Des Moines, Iowa | vonahsen | 41.126648°, -93.547534° vonahsen came close, but no GPS. Eyeballed it fro... |
| Boston, Massachusetts | Randall, Moku, Pinecone, Brad, Spot, Nick, chess set will be there., goban will be there. Will also, various games., Brian, Boggle are going to d, Jose missed the 1709. But will, Merc will be there next week, is sorry he couldn't make | 42.1266480113970560, -71.5475331240942810 These coordinates are in Hopedal... |
| Springfield, Massachusetts | Thomcat/Unlocked | Located in Blunt Park near Springfield, MA. (Visited by Evan, Brian, Andrew... |
| Ithaca, New York | Chris | Reached (sort of) by Chris and Co. Didn't have GPS, but since there was a ... |
| Detroit, Michigan | Eric | not only on land, but appears to be very reachable. |
| Lansing, Michigan | Someone went | The meetup coordinates were located south of Jackson, Michigan, near the to... |
| Schaumburg, Illinois | Shakedown, DavidEGrayson, Bill, Katie, cousin Noah | This page is about the official meetup on 2008-05-24 in the Schaumburg, IL graticule.... |
| Cedar Rapids North, Iowa | Nfomi | Meeting point was approximately 5 miles north of Marion, Iowa, on the east ... |
| Rochester, New York | Cogit0 | These coordinates are located in the Rochester, New York graticule on 2008-05-24. Coordinates are 43.126... |
| Lockport, New York | Anonymous | Niagara County, someone's back lawn |
| Madison, Wisconsin | Alric | The expedition to the Madison, Wisconsin graticule on 2008-05-24 falls in Devil's Lake State Park! --Alric... |
| Eugene, Oregon | Grron | Eugene, Corvallis, Monmouth, and West Salem Oregon Graticule: 44, -123 Sa... |
| Potsdam, New York | MissingDividends | Somewhere |
| Portland, Oregon | Wil, 7 Geohashers including | South of Molalla, Oregon |
| Ottawa, Ontario | Kevin | The coordinates were remarkably convenient -- smack dab in the middle of so... |
| Minneapolis NW, Minnesota | Abi | I stopped by the geohash point at approximately 4:30 on my way back from hi... |
| Seattle, Washington | Marcy | Marcy : Today's location was in Tillicum, right off I-5 near McChord AFB. ... |
| Zürich, Switzerland | Adi | The coordinates are on the Zugerberg near Zug, Switzerland. |
| Bellingham, Washington | Evan | The actual coordinates were about .75mi offshore, but were close enough to ... |
| München, Germany | BB | I have been there. And I got the split-double-wrong achievement! # I ... |
| Wien, Austria | Unexpected, Lumbricus | Lumbricus and Unexpected tried to get as close as possible. 50m away they h... |
| Paris, France | Ilia | I (Ilia) did not realize that the algorithm took into account not only the ... |
| Surrey, British Columbia | Ryan, Deborah, Brad | These coordinates were located in the Surrey, British Columbia graticule on 2008-05-24, in a rural area in La... |
| Winnipeg, Manitoba | Zach | just north of Altona, to the East of Highway 30 |
| London West, United Kingdom | Kira, James, Kit, Oliver | The first meetup in London West graticule was located a mile to the north-e... |
| Dresden, Germany | Heiner | Successfully reached location (place inside a field) in Brockwitz near Cosw... |
| Gent, Belgium | FrederikVds | This meetup took place in the Ghent, Belgium graticule on May 24th 2008. Th... |
| Birmingham, United Kingdom | Krypto | 52.126648°, -1.547534° This is the geohash for the Birmingham, United Kingdom graticule on 2008-05-24. It's... |
| Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | Anonymous | In the middle of someone's farm. |
| Cambridge, United Kingdom | Youpi | On the first Saturday of the project, the meetup point was located on the v... |
| Berlin, Germany | GeorgDerReisende/sandbox | I tried to get there, but took the wrong path in the forest. I was pretty c... |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | Henk, Pijll, Two others | The first meetup in Noord West Nederland was located near Hazerswoude. Four people and a larger... |
| Enschede, Netherlands | M.qrius | People that got there: * M.qrius * Evo-- * Michael The accessroad was cl... |
| Sheffield, United Kingdom | single-figures | On 2008-05-24, in the Sheffield (53,-1) graticule, attendance was in single-figures, ... |
| Edmonton, Alberta | Thomcat/Unlocked | Somewhere |
| Groningen, Netherlands | MHD, Hugo | The first saturday North East Netherlands location was in Eelde, near the A... |
| Middlesbrough, United Kingdom | Ajtag | Near Studley Roger |
| Carlisle, United Kingdom | Nick Taylor, Bramp, Chronos Empire, Nic, C, K | On 24th May 2008, the first Saturday meeting since the algorithm was publis... |
| Växjö, Sweden | Sulo | Sulo and RandomPerson trekking the woods of Skane (southern Sweden): We did... |
| Helsinki, Finland | Jon | Reached by Kliment. Pics at [[4]]. I thoroughly enjoyed the image of the ants! ... |
