2014-03-11 47 -122

Tue 11 Mar 2014 in Seattle: 47.6868412, -122.3840468 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

NW 80th Street in Ballard, between 21st and 22nd ave NW.

Participants

• Thomcat

Plans

Revisit after work

Expedition

Was a few minutes from ready for work at 6:28 - might as well check the point before heading out the door. WARNING: Different DJIA values for 2014-03-11: 16419.39 (crox) / 0 (peeron). Using 16419.39. is never a good sign. Still, 2km south and 1km west of my house is worth an expedition.

Google maps shows it to be in the middle of 80th ave NW, near a favorite bakery called Larsens. Ballard is the Scandinavian portion of Seattle, from the Blessing of the Fleet (two days ago) to Syttende Mai. With some Swedish lineage, it was a natural place to call home.

Out the door and on the way - what is the soonest a geohash has been reached after announcement? I pulled up geohash droid. FAIL. Okay, alternate plan a - check the Seattle page and load peeron or OSM... also fail. Peeron gave me coordinates based on zero, I believe. So back to http://tjum.anthill.de, the most useful resource today.

Scribbling the coordinates on an envelope, I strive to open the GPS mapping, which leads me to what I expected - google maps and the middle of NW 80th. I am now 17 minutes past coordinate announcement. I park, chalk the street location (to return later or alert others) then I set up to snap pictures with my trusty Canon PowerShot. One last stab at geohashdroid gives me another fail, so I snap a picture of that also.

At least the consolation of a delicious maple bar from Larsen's Bakery sends me on my way to work in a chipper mood.

Photos

• 2014-03-11 47 -122 GPS

  Google maps, blue for parked car, red for destination

• 2014-03-11 47 -122 Error

  Droid error

• 2014-03-11 47 -122 Larsens
• 2014-03-11 47 -122 Goodies
• 2014-03-11 47 -122 Goodies2
• 2014-03-11 47 -122 MapleBar

  Delicious!