Townsville, Australia
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Townsville
The Townsville graticule is a pretty good one. It neatly includes Magnetic Island, Crystal Creek and Paluma in the north (but not as far as Paluma Dam), Alligator Creek in the east, and almost reaches Charters Towers in the west. Most of the middle will be pretty hard to get to by road but there is some potential.
Graticule Links
Local Geohashers
Simon made this page. He doesn't own a GPS and isn't all that serious about actually Geohashing for real. But he might just check the coordinates once in a while and... maybe... Anyone else out there?
Matty K created the following abomination: http://geohashing.kerwin.net.au/ It reduces the Townsville graticule by another order of magnitude (0.125°×0.125° — approx. 10km×10km). Unfortunately he can't be bothered making it suck less. However, if people are interested in using either this or the official algorithm to meet up randomly on Saturdays, he's willing. He also made the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23713782409
Geohashes
- 2008-09-20 -19 146 ← out near Woodstock.
- 2008-10-04 -19 146 ← failed
(See: Category:Meetup in -19 146)
Current Meetup Location
- Sat, 11-Oct-2008. One word: terrible. Without a helicopter, this location somewhere in the Paluma ranges is all but inaccessible. According to the Google maps satellite view, there appears to be a dirt road that leads most of the way up the river valley from the Hervey's Range Development Road. It's hard to be sure, but it appears to either stop about 6km shy of the point, or magically cross the river and continue much closer (within about 1km); but it's too hard to tell in the low-res satellite images. (If the map view is to be believed, the dirt track continues north to join up with Mt Spec road; which could be a little closer to the city, but more likely to get someone wildly lost.)
- Matty: If I was young, fit, and single (and maybe had a 4x4) I might possibly attempt this one. But as it is, I think not this week.
- Alternatives
- Matty's unofficial Townsville graticule has a much more achievable point — some industrial yard on Ingham Rd.
- The only real graticule anywhere nearby with a reasonably accessible hash point appears to be Proserpine. Their point is a short spit from a nice little dirt road maybe half an hour off the highway. Alas, about 3hrs from Townsville.
Recent Unattended Saturday Locations
These are only the most potentially accessible Saturday meetup locations.
- Sat, 24-May-2008. Right near the beach 10 minutes north of Saunders Beach. There's a dirt road you can see on the satellite view. Would have been a great spot!
- Sat, 28-Jun-2008. Near an apparent crater and some sort of industrial area (a quarry?) near Dotswood... wherever that is.
- Sat, 12-Jul-2008. Near Dotswood again. There's some sort of dirt road on the satellite view.
- Sat, 16-Aug-2008. Someone's front yard at Alice River. Definitely doable.
- Sat, 27-Sep-2008. Out near the Towers, just north of the river. There's a dirt track from the highway, past a homestead, to the point (200m off), so maybe doable. (*sigh* —Matty)
Links for upcoming Saturdays
Please Note: until the time comes, these links will be inaccurate as they depend on data that isn't known yet. If you can accurately predict the stock market ahead of time, please let us know.
