Talk:Atlanta, Georgia

Geohashing in 2009

It looks like the Most Active Graticule for January is within reach. Let's go for it. Also, we need to get meeting each other and have Atlanta's first official Saturday meetup. Let's hope the coordinates for 2009-01-31 are good. Woodveil 20:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Visiting other grats

Atlanta's coordinates fall between 33 and 34, and -83 and -84. It doesn't divide neatly. Shall we plug all four locations and meet wherever's closest to actual Atlanta?

I'd say no. The vast majority of Atlanta falls in the 33,-84 grid. But then again, I'm an hour south of ATL. ^_^

I'd also say no as this might unfairly rob those other graticules of their geohashing populations... if you aren't part of the Atlanta graticule you can chose to come to the atlanta graticule, go to whatever graticule is closest to you, or make a new geohashing algorithm that is hashed and centered around cities such as Atlanta - I prefer you do the third choice so I don't have to. Though if you'd like to work on it together and make a new site based around it, perhaps we could meet up some Saturday!

Maybe use common sense, and go to the nearest set of co-ords to one's residence. For instance, I'm in Marietta, so anything at the top of my grid is out of reach, but perfectly within reach by hopping into the main grid that atlanta is in, and vice versa.

May 12 Meetup

How was this? Did someone end up going?

May 23 Meetup

What great luck, to get a place right off I-85, and with what looks like a parking lot, no less! I've been looking at the satellite and I think we're meeting at a gym; my husband thinks it's a middle school. What do you think it is?

I was thinking it might be a YMCA so i checked.. and I think this is it I won't be going today though...

sunsnail - Are we meeting in that open dirt field, or are we meeting off the road? There is a meeting everyday. If you are going Friday you are meeting in the parking lot. If you are going Saturday you are meeting in the open field.

June 20 Meetup

I might try to get there. The only problem that I see is that it is a pond on someone's back yard. When I living in Ylorida the retention pond we lived on was fair game to walk around. But these back yards are much closer to the pond. Also they are probably country club people so they might be a bit uppity about people walking in their backyard. But you could probably wade to the spot in the pond and get a Water Geohash achievement. Does anyone else plan on going? I probably will if it is just more than me (1 body is easy to get rid of, 2 is much more difficult).

July?

I haven't been by recently, are there still meetings going on?

Alternate Algorithm Proposal

I am new around here, so forgive me for sounding pushy... MARTA reaches over 10% of our graticule, which SHOULD mean that I (a bike+MARTA bound person) can make it to a hash every couple of weeks. In the past 30 days there have been *ZERO* hashes within MARTA coverage, thanks to bad random numbers, and only three if we consider MARTA+GRTA+CCT+GCT. My proposal actually applies to hashing in general, but I would love to get it started in Atlanta. The idea, specifically, is to split the grat(s) into quadrants and wrap all the hash locations into each quadrant. This will make for four times as many locations. Naysayers may respond "but that will cut attendance by 75%!", which I say is hogwash. Something like 90% of our hashes have zero attendance. Cutting those by 75% doesn't hurt at all. On the flip side, there would be MORE points near the city, which I think would increase attendance greatly. The only actual loss would be the very rare occasion where someone from the city is currently travelling out to a hash in the south/west quadrants, which according to the data on our wiki page is almost never. I am going to start proposing alternate locations on Zigdon's Map when the quadrant system produces a point that I can reach. Your opinions are welcome and appreciated. Sparr 19:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

First example, considering only the most city-centric result, today's hash would be moved .5 degrees north, to a point inside Greenwood Cemetery, just southwest of downtown. Sparr 19:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)