Difference between revisions of "2009-01-01 30 -81"

Revision as of 19:54, 1 January 2009

Expeditions

This was our (Woodveil) first attempted geohash and it was successful. My brother and I decided to go for it the night before, and so we set out around 8:00 in the morning. Getting to the location involved exploring the north westside, near Pritchard Road. The final leg was driving about three quarters of a mile down an ostensibly-private dirt road, followed by a few hundred feet on foot. Thankfully there was a trail. The location itself was a few yards away from some railroad tracks, and we used them in conjunction with a treeline and Google maps to find the spot as best we could. We took some pictures, picked up some trash and a Geotrash ribbon, wrote "xkcd" in the dirt, and left. [[Category:Coordinates reached]

Gallery

Photo Gallery
Closing in on the hashpoint.
Chris standing somewhere near it.
This is looking south at the railroad tracks. Apparently someone's building a new road.
The map used, for lack of a GPS unit.
Point was reached just prior to 8:28 A.M., Thursday January 1.
Earning my Geotrash Achievement.

Achievements

This user earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (30, -81) geohash on 2009-01-01.

This user earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (30, -81) geohash on 2009-01-01.

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 ==Expeditions==
-This was our first attempted geohash and it was successful. My brother and I decided to go for it the night before, and so we set out around 8:00 in the morning. Getting to the location involved exploring the north westside, near Pritchard Road. The final leg was driving about three quarters of a mile down an ostensibly-private dirt road, followed by a few hundred feet on foot. Thankfully there was a trail. The location itself was a few yards away from some railroad tracks, and we used them in conjunction with a treeline and Google maps to find the spot as best we could.  We took some pictures, picked up some trash and a Geotrash ribbon, wrote "xkcd" in the dirt, and left.
+This was our ([[User:Woodveil|Woodveil]]) first attempted geohash and it was successful. My brother and I decided to go for it the night before, and so we set out around 8:00 in the morning. Getting to the location involved exploring the north westside, near Pritchard Road. The final leg was driving about three quarters of a mile down an ostensibly-private dirt road, followed by a few hundred feet on foot. Thankfully there was a trail. The location itself was a few yards away from some railroad tracks, and we used them in conjunction with a treeline and Google maps to find the spot as best we could.  We took some pictures, picked up some trash and a Geotrash ribbon, wrote "xkcd" in the dirt, and left.
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 <gallery caption="Photo Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="2">
 Image:Dirt road.jpg‎|Closing in on the hashpoint.
-Image:Made_it!.jpg‎|Me ([[User:Woodveil|Woodveil]]) standing somewhere near it.
+Image:Made_it!.jpg‎|Chris standing somewhere near it.
 Image:RR and culvert.jpg‎|This is looking south at the railroad tracks. Apparently someone's building a new road.
 Image:Google Map.jpg|The map used, for lack of a GPS unit.


Thu 1 Jan 2009 in Jacksonville: 30.3784381, -81.8331568 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox