2009-06-17 34 -84

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Wed 17 Jun 2009 in Roswell:
34.1205605, -84.5465435
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Roswell

About

This hash point is off to the side of a driveway at a house in Woodstock.

People

I was kind of hoping that this house would be a vacant house so I would not have to explain Geohashing to them. I had printed out a google map and the pdf file that explains geohashing but I had forgot them on my desk as I left work. I knew that this subdivision that the geohash point was in has more expensive homes. I knew that my chances were good that it would be a vacant home, I just didn't know how good.

As I drove into the subdivision, I noticed that at least one in three houses were for sale. I would say 1 in 4 of those that were for sale were in foreclosure. Atlanta is sure hit hard by the housing market crash especially the more expensive homes.

Sure enough as I followed my eTrex to the spot, the house that the hash point was at was for sale and vacant. I knocked on the door and looked in the window and the house was vacant. There was a Realtor lock box on the door so I knew that there was nobody home.

I walked back down the side walk looking for the hash point. It turned out to be under this huge tree. I got to 2 feet to the hash point and didn't feel like crawling under the tree to get to 0 feet. I decided close enough and took a few pictures.

I then headed home to Norcross.

Expeditions

Gallery

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NWoodruff earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (34, -84) geohash on 2009-06-17.