2012-08-21 47 -117

Tue 21 Aug 2012 in 47,-117: 47.6594488, -117.4660541 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

in Greenwood Memorial Cemetery on Government Way.

Participants

Greenup, Rab, Greer, Nessa, and Pace.

Expedition

Notes:

1. a cemetery is NOT necessarily an easy place to locate a geohash. To be properly respectful, you have to watch your surroundings more than the changing numbers, so you aren't walking all over people's graves.

2. I had some difficulties with the coordinates... Though I had printed out pictures/maps of where I was going, for some reason, the actual coordinates didn't print out. Then I managed to get the decimals after the wrong degree numbers...

3. My GPS is... poor. After wandering 10 feet this way, ten feet that way, re-aligning to north because the wrong decimal was changing when I moved, repeating the process, going too far, finally just standing STILL in utter frustration, and then watching the numbers continue to wander all over the place. Sigh; I know there are GENERAL accuracy issues, but I think my phone is particularly known for it's pathetic GPS capabilities.

4. Even though I made them stay in the car for a while to avoid walking on people, the kids seemed to have fun. if nothing else, they got some DS time in on the car ride out and back.