Difference between revisions of "2009-06-28 50 -1"

Revision as of 18:54, 27 June 2009

Location

Right in the middle of Hedge End recreation ground! Plenty of space to play, pubs and cafes and shops nearby. A perfect geohash!

Participants

User:Sermoa
User:Macronencer - possibly - if the weather is good

Details

XKCD hash location

1.9 mile walk from Hedge End train station

2.4 mile walk from Botley train station

Bluestar 3 bus goes from Southampton to Hedge End £5.30 return or from Bitterne £4.00 return.

Close to the M27.

How the location is calculated

It's a combination of the date, the Dow Jones stock market data, an encryption algorithm, and a translation to geographic coordinates. We use 50, -1 to find the closest Geohash location to us, and look it up on a Google map to see where it falls. Quite often it's in the English Channel, or a field in the middle of nowhere. When it falls in a convenient place, such as Hedge End recreation ground, it's quite fun to go there to see if anyone else has come to the same place for the same reason!

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 [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=50.916428,-1.258578&daddr=50.910206%C2%B0,+-1.306221&geocode=%3BFf7TCAMdkxHs_w&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=15&dirflg=w&sll=50.913397,-1.275787&sspn=0.013529,0.039868&ie=UTF8&ll=50.912964,-1.281581&spn=0.027058,0.079737&t=h&z=14 2.4 mile walk from Botley train station]
-Bluestar 3 bus goes from Southampton to Hedge End.
+Bluestar 3 bus goes from Southampton to Hedge End £5.30 return or from Bitterne £4.00 return.
 Close to the M27.


Sun 28 Jun 2009 in Southampton: 50.9102060, -1.3062207 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox