Cambridge, United Kingdom

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This graticule has boundaries from 52° to 53° latitude, and 0° to 1° longitude and contains Cambridge, UK. The graticle from -1° to 0° longitude is also near to Cambridge, but, due to the symmetry about the prime meridian, will never provide locations closer to the centre of Cambridge.

Local Geohashers

Slainveteran is bike powered, so will only be able to make it when the coordinates lie nearby Cambridge itself
lilac is also bike powered, but might be prepared to cycle up to about ten miles for a Saturday location.
Spanky is also bike powered, and went Saturday (24/5), leaving a little later than expected. Saw nobody and will be taking a satnav in future. Here is an Art found outside Haverhill:

youpi is bike powered, was there (52.126648°, 0.547533°) this afternoon (Saturday, 24/5) between 16:00 and 16:30 but saw nobody :/ Anyway it was a cool 46 miles tour! On the way I spotted an unexpected road sign:

For the cycle-powered, Sunday's location (2008-05-25) looks to be reachable from Bishops Stortford / Stansted Airport railway stations (though it's about 10 miles each way):

51.9417748528,0.18287359767

Mmm, it looks like there is a mistake above: it is *not* in the (52,0) graticule...

True, but the (52,0) location is further from Cambridge, and significantly more underwater.

Spanky suggests: some cunning way of indicating who has visited a spot...?

JPD is bike powered as well. 16:00 is usually Not A Good Time, but will occasionally get there before that and leave a mark.

Mini Geohashing

A new idea for the bike-powered. To get a location always close to the centre of Cambridge, try mini-geohashing over an area 1% of a standard graticule.

Method: find your current coordinates and remove everything after the first decimal place. In Cambridge, that's going to be either 52.1 or 52.2 north and 0.0 or 0.1 east. Then add the standard string of digits to the end of the number.

E.g. the geohash coordinates for Sunday 25th May 2008 in the standard graticule are 52.941774°, 0.182873°. That makes the mini-geohash location closest to the centre of Cambridge 52.1941774°, 0.1182873° - much more convenient

What do you think? - Sarah

I like it in principle, but I think we risk diluting an already-small number of people. A good coverage of Cambridge would seem to be 52.15° + 0.1 x, 0.1° + 0.1 y. Also, if there's a convenient hash every day, it would make it significantly less special when the numbers happen to work out. Perhaps only on Saturdays (and maybe only when the usual hash lands outside of the (52.15, 0.1) - (52.25, 0.2) box)? What do other people think? - Richard

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